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Verb: coapt
  1. Fit tightly and fasten
    "The surgeon coapted the edges of the wound before suturing"
     
  2. Cause to adhere
    "The wounds were coapted";
    - conglutinate

Derived forms: coapting, coapted, coapts

Type of: close, fasten, fill up, fix, secure

Encyclopedia: Coapt