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Definition of adhered : of Adhere

Synonyms:

ceded, genuflected, submitted, obeyed, surrendered, caved, bent, deferred, respected, accepted, succumbed, concurred, fulfilled, complied, agreed, knuckled under, bowed, observed, consented, capitulated, conformed, yielded, assented, acquiesced, kowtowed

fused, solidified, stuck together, integrated, cohered

aped, mimicked

grappled, clutched, retained, gripped, kept, had, embraced, held, grasped, clasped, seized

allied, amalgamated, affiliated, adjacent, consolidated, wed, synergistic

clung, hitched, affixed, merged, related, joined, bound, fastened, stuck, annexed, connected, juxtaposed, spliced, bonded, married, wedded, attached, abutted, coupled

Usage examples:

• Most of them adhered to their parishes almost to the very last man. - "Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.", Gustav Freytag.
• Those represented the twelve chapters into which the poem is divided, and I adhered to that arrangement to the last. - "Robert Browning", Edward Dowden.
• Timothy adhered to his announced intention of leaving on the following morning, much to Arethusa's fury. - "The Heart of Arethusa", Francis Barton Fox.