Verb
To forge a social or emotional bond between people.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see weld, together.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIn Washington's day the task of the people was to create and weld together a nation. In Lincoln's day the task of the people was to preserve that Nation from disruption from within. In this day the task of the people is to save that Nation and its institutions from disruption from without. Franklin D. Roosevelt