to hold to something firmly as if by adhesiona dozen magnets clinging to the refrigerator

v.stick, adhere, cohere, cling, cleave mean to become closely attached.stick implies attachment by affixing or by being glued together.couldn't get the label to stickadhere is often interchangeable with stick but sometimes implies a growing together.antibodies adhering to a viruscohere suggests a sticking together of parts so that they form a unified mass.eggs will make the mixture coherecling implies attachment by hanging on with arms or tendrils.clinging to a capsized boatcleave stresses strength of attachment.the wet shirt cleaved to his back

before the 12^th century