COLLOCATE

[verb] [I] [specialized] - (of words and phrases) to be used frequently together in a way that sounds correct to people who have spoken the language all their lives, but might not be expected from the meaningThe adjective 'heavy' collocates with the noun 'rain' but 'strong' doesn't.'Heavy' and 'rain' collocate.You can't always predict from their meanings which words will collocate with each other.