garnering

Verb

garner (third-person singular simple present garners, present participle garnering, simple past and past participle garnered)

1. (transitive) To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary.
   • The rustic does not know what would happen to him if he garnered his corn on Sunday, nor does the diner-out in polite society know what would happen if he spooned up his food with his knife - but they both are stricken with a sort of paralysis at the very suggestion of infringing these taboos.1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 195
2. (transitive) To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain.
   • […] I walked enormous distances[…] garnering thoughts even from the heather.1835, Honoré de Balzac, The Lily of the Valley, Chapter 2
3. (figuratively, often, transitive) To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire (attitudes, reputations, or actions from others) by some effort or due to some fact
   • To garner support

   Synonyms:

   reap, gain

4. (rare, transitive) To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored.
   • She soothed herself with the belief that the workings of her soul were still known to him,—that her regret and her despondency were but the needful preparation for that other sphere, where now her only remaining hope was garnered.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 9–10

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