The ends of plastic fiber ropes are often melted and fused solid.

The entire powerhead fused solid when he triggered the power.

It's fused solid to the metal shell of the rocket.

Its teeth were rotted in its mouth, its hips were fused solid with arthritis, and huge fatty tumors lumped under its hide.

His right knee, *that* old injury hadn't healed: the knee was fused solid.

My secondary communications systems are fused solid, my primary is also fused, though a few circuits open at the time of the blast seem curiously to have survived.

"Fused solid," said Wesley, examining the square circuit.

Well, most of the controls are burned away, and the rest fused solid.

Her right cheek and side and thigh had been eaten away by the lime-pit, and at her throat, her ruby necklace had fused solid with the collar-bone.

Because fused solid, I believe, the mechanism.