GATHER

I. verb (~ed; ~ing) see: good Date: before 12th century transitive verb to bring together ; collect , 2. pick , harvest , to pick up or amass as if by harvesting , to scoop up or take up from a resting place , to serve as an attraction for ; accumulate , to effect the collection of , 5. to summon up , to gain by gradual increase , to prepare (as oneself) by mustering strength, to gain or regain control of , to reach a conclusion often intuitively from hints or through inferences , 7. to pull (fabric) along a line of stitching so as to draw into puckers, to draw about or close to something , to bring together the parts of , to assemble (the signatures of a book) in sequence for binding, to haul in , intransitive verb 1. to come together in a body, to cluster around a focus of attraction, 2. to swell and fill with pus, grow , increase , ~er noun Synonyms: see: ~ see: infer II. noun Date: 1555 something ~ed: as, a puckering in cloth made by ~ing, a mass of molten glass collected for use in glassblowing, an act or instance of ~ing