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Synonyms & Antonyms of gather
1
to bring together in one body or place
- he 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
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2
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
- late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter
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3
to come together into one body or place
- a crowd gathered around the street musician
- ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting
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- assemble,
- cluster,
- collect,
- concenter,
- concentrate,
- conglomerate,
- congregate,
- convene,
- converge,
- forgather
- (or foregather),
- meet,
- rendezvous
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4
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
- I gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you?
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- conclude,
- decide,
- deduce,
- derive,
- extrapolate,
- infer,
- judge,
- make out,
- reason,
- understand
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5
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass
- the newspapers that had been allowed to gather on the front doorstep told thieves that the family was away on vacation
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6
to gradually increase in
- the movement gathered force as election day neared
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Time Traveler for gather
The first known use of gather was before the 12th century
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