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gatherverb to bring together in one body or placehe gathered the leftovers from the table and gave them to the dog let's gather the students and have them line up on the playground before going in from recess accumulate, amass, assemble, bulk (up), collect, concentrate, congregate, constellate, corral, garner, group, lump, pick up, round up ball, batch, bunch, cluster, huddleheap, pile, stackband, brigade, muster, raise, rallyflock, herd, hive, pack, press, swarm, throngcombine, connect, join, link, merge, pool, unitearchive, arrange, collate, compile, organize, systematizescrape (up or together)re-collect, regather, regroup get together dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter break up, disband, disintegrate, dissolve, separate, sever, split (up)dismiss, send to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human uselate summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter harvest, pick, reap clam, fish, seal, shrimp, whaleaccumulate, forage, garnergleancut, hay, mowbag, capture, hunt, net, snare, trapcrop, grow, raise plant, seed, sow to come together into one body or placea crowd gathered around the street musician ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting assemble, cluster, collect, concenter, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, convene, converge, forgather(or foregather), meet, rendezvous affiliate, ally, associate, band (together), caucus, club, collaborate, confederate, conjoin, consolidate, consort, cooperate, couple, federate, gang up, join, merge, unitereassemble, reconvene, regather, remeet get together break up, disband, disperse, split (up) depart, leave, take offdisjoin, dissociate, disunite to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and informationI gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you? conclude, decide, deduce, derive, extrapolate, infer, judge, make out, reason, understand assume, supposeconjecture, guess, speculate, surmiseconstrue, interpret, readcontemplate, philosophize, rationalize, thinkascertain, dope (out), find out draw a conclusion to gradually form into a layer, pile, or massthe newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation accrete, accumulate, amass, build up, collect, concentrate, conglomerate, mass, pile (up), stack (up) agglutinate, clump, lumpbank, drift, ridge disperse, dissipate, scatter to gradually increase inthe movement gathered force as election day neared build up, gain, grow (in), pick up double (in), triple (in)accrue, accumulate, amassexcite, stimulateenhance, enlarge, enrich, expand, extend, maximizeboost, elevate, jack (up), mount, ramp (up), step up decrease (in), lose abate, decline (in), diminish (in), dip, dwindle, fall (in), lessen, taper, taper off to call into being through the use of one's inner resources or powersgathered the strength to finish the marathon conjure (up), get up, summon educe, elicit, evoke, raise gather, collect, assemble, congregate mean to come or bring together into a group, mass, or unit.gather is the most general term for bringing or coming together from a spread-out or scattered state.a crowd quickly gathered collect often implies careful selection or orderly arrangement.collected books on gardening assemble implies an ordered union or organization of persons or things often for a definite purpose.experts assembled for a conference congregate implies a spontaneous flocking together into a crowd or huddle.congregating under a shelter Cf. infer. before the 12th century |