knit
verb
1 disparate regions had begun to knit together | their experience knitted the men together:
unite, become united, unify, become unified, become one, come together, become closer, band together, bond, combine, coalesce, merge, meld, blend, amalgamate, league;
bind, weld together, bring together, draw together, ally, link, join, fuse, connect, consolidate.
knit Oxford Dictionary of English