GATHER

v. 1 collect, assemble, accumulate, amass, muster, heap or pile (up), garner, pick, harvest, glean, get or bring together, stockpile, stock I gathered all the firewood I could find 2 collect, assemble, convene, meet, huddle, forgather or foregather, get or come together, congregate, turn out, flock or herd (together), group, cluster, throng, crowd, swarm, rally We gathered round the old man's bed 3 purse, shirr, pucker, tuck, ruffle, pleat, draw or pull together, contract, constrict The fabric is gathered at the waist 4 draw, conclude, infer, assume, deduce, understand, learn, hear, be led to believe I gather that you'd prefer not to collect the award in person 5 increase, grow, enlarge, expand, extend, wax, heighten, deepen, intensify, build, rise He stood, menacingly, in the gathering shadows