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Agglutinate (Verb)

Clump together; as of bacteria, red blood cells, etc..

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

In certain environments, the bacteria will agglutinate and form large clusters that can be easily identified.
When exposed to cold temperatures, red blood cells may agglutinate and cause complications.
Researchers studied the properties of the protein that causes platelets to agglutinate and form blood clots.
The antibiotics induced the bacteria to agglutinate and weakened the infection.
In the presence of an antigen, the antibodies will bind and cause the corresponding red blood cells to agglutinate.

String together (morphemes in an agglutinating language).

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.

Morphemes combine to agglutinate into the word for dog, revealing its grammatical function in the sentence.
Turkish is an agglutinating language, so speakers agglutinate multiple suffixes to convey a single word's tense and plurality.
As Inuit languages often agglutinate, expressions in them can become elaborate words containing several embedded morphemes.
This word can agglutinate together from two root words, their order specifying whether the resulting word means "to fill with emotion" or "to take out an emotion from something."
Speakers of the agglutinating language agglutinate many sounds together in order to change a word's grammatical context and, in doing so, give the word new meanings and purposes.