ligate

To tie or bind with a ligature.

To bind with a ligature; tie.

To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

To concatenate two strands of (nucleic acid, usually DNA), in an end-to-end fashion, using a ligase.

To bind with a ligature or bandage.

bind with a bandage or ligature

join letters in a ligature when writing

bind chemically