Usually means: Stick or attach firmly; follow.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word adhere:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adhere: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adhere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adhere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adhere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adhere: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adhere, adhere: Wordnik
  7. adhere: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adhere: Wiktionary
  9. adhere: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adhere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adhere: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. adhere: Dictionary.com
  13. adhere: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Adhere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Adhere: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adhere: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adhere: Rhymezone
  18. adhere: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adhere: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adhere: Free Dictionary
  21. adhere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adhere: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. adhere: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. adhere: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhere: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhere: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adhere: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ADHERE: Acronym Finder
  2. adhere: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc.
verb:  (intransitive, figurative) To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree.
verb:  (intransitive, Scots law) To affirm a judgment.

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