cement = 'to prove conclusively'

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've never seen this construction - which results in a new sense:

http://news.yahoo.com/mystery-molelike-mammal-survived-dino-extinction-123155007.html
:
The find cements that both the new and old fossils are *Necrolestes* and
proves that this group did not go extinct as early as believed.

JL

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