cemented

His celebration, with Barca's entire bench running towards him in the pouring rain, became a symbolic image of the team's unity and cemented his status as a dressing room leader.

The shouting-match in the Oval Office will have cemented that view.

In the first, Hackman’s local sheriff, Little Bill Daggett, already cemented in our brains as vicious, reveals himself to be a shrewd mocker of the written word as well.

It was a very difficult, painful death that cemented her belief in assisted dying for the terminally ill.

Trump supporters, for the most part, are ecstatic at the speed with which Donald Trump has cemented his takeover of government.