mustering

Verb

muster (third-person singular simple present musters, present participle mustering, simple past and past participle mustered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To show, exhibit.
2. (intransitive) To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
   • We were then in the third week of November; but, we took our measures so vigorously, and were so well seconded by the friends in whom we confided, that there was still a week of the month unexpired, when our party all came down together merrily, and mustered in the haunted house.1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
3. (transitive) To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
   • 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift
     With the help of some low-end boosting, Dinklage musters a decent amount of kid-appropriate menace—although he never does explain his gift for finding chunks of ice shaped like pirate ships—but Romano and Leary mainly sound bored, droning...
4. (US, transitive) To enroll (into service).
5. (Australia, New Zealand, transitive) To gather or round up livestock.

   Synonyms:

   rally

6. (transitive) To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up.
   • I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.

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