To form by uniting two or more layers (in sheet form) of a material, so that the layers are bonded tightly.

During this time she and her mother bonded tightly.

During this period, my family bonded tightly and, in spite of hardships, we were happy.

Its very existence is testimony to a system that tightly bonded workers and their families to their factories or organizations.

The anion does not exist per se, unless combined with tightly bonded cations.

It has merely replaced dense metal with carefully tailored structures of light, tightly bonded atoms.

Advantages seen in retaining this unique Benedictine emphasis on autonomy include cultivating models of tightly bonded communities and contemplative lifestyles.

Crystallization is the way that atoms gather to make tightly bonded or connected groups.

It also bonded tightly to Mr. Mathews's elastic bass lines; together the two musicians produced a rhythmic slipstream.

Tightly bonded with Wallace, her eccentric younger sister, Fiona feels completely abandoned when Wallace runs away and remains inconsolable until her return.