0 present participle of cement
1 to put cement on a surface or stick things together using cement
2 to make something such as an agreement or friendship stronger:
Located along the edges of the pyramid were ten more qualities (honesty, sincerity, integrity, faith, patience, etc.) cementing the entire structure in place.
Fiscal reform was a critical component of this, as it contributed both to redressing distortionary state interventions and to cementing fragile macroeconomic stabilisation plans.
Through gift-giving, women are cementing exchange relations with their natal kin as security against extreme adversity.
Since rock walls do not contain any cementing material, the runoff water is retained, filtered, and slowly released through the existing crevasses.
This provides a potential mechanism in vivo for conveying the strong impact of arousal in potentiating and cementing emotional memory.
Pre-sulphide brecciation is common with dolomite, quartz and minor calcite cementing rock fragments.
Progress in cementing civil rights and broadening political liberties has been disappointing.
Cementing these social structural and professional institutional commonalities were more direct ties.
