gether

Verb

gather (third-person singular simple present gathers, present participle gathering, simple past and past participle gathered)

1. To collect normally separate things.
   • I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
   1. Especially, to harvest food.
      • We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
   2. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
      • Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
   3. (intransitive) To congregate, or assemble.
      • People gathered round as he began to tell his story.
   4. (intransitive) To grow gradually larger by accretion.
      • Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...
2. To bring parts of a whole closer.
   • She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.

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