GATHER


Meaning of GATHER in English

verb

1.

Synonyms: group 1, assemble, cluster, collect, round up

Related Word: choose, cull, pick, select; accumulate, amass

Idioms: separate the wheat from the chaff ( or the sheep from the goats)

Contrasted words: dispel, disperse, dissipate

Antonyms: scatter

2.

Synonyms: reap , garner, harvest, ingather

Related Word: cull, pick, pluck; heap, mass, pile, stack

3.

Synonyms: glean , cull, extract, garner, pick up

4.

Synonyms: infer , collect, conclude, deduce, deduct, derive, draw, judge, make, make out

Related Word: catch, fathom, follow, grasp, take in

Idioms: put two and two together

5.

Synonyms: understand 3, assume, believe, expect, imagine, ||reckon, suppose, suspect, take, think

6.

to bring or come together

a crowd gathered to watch the fight

Synonyms: assemble, collect, congregate, congress, forgather, muster, raise, rendezvous; compare group 1

Related Word: aggregate, troop; affiliate, ally, associate, league; encounter, meet

Contrasted words: break up, disband, disperse, part, separate; disintegrate, disorganize, dissolve

Antonyms: scatter

7.

Synonyms: loom 2, brew, forthcome, impend

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