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Assemble

To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.

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Verb group 6

Encounter 84% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Encounter 84% connected

To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile in…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Meet 84% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Meet 84% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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See 84% connected

A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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Accumulate 76% connected

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Amass 76% connected

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Conglomerate 76% connected

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Create 76% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cumulate 76% connected

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Interact 76% connected

A short act or piece between others, as in a play; an interlude; hence, intermediate employment or time.

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Join 76% connected

To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Manner of action 24

Aggroup 76% connected

To bring together in a group; to group.

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Caucus 76% connected

A meeting, especially a preliminary meeting, of persons belonging to a party, to nominate candidates for public office, or to select delegates to a n…

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Club 76% connected

A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Cluster 76% connected

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Comfit 76% connected

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Compound 76% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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Confect 76% connected

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of.

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Confection 76% connected

A composition of different materials.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Configure 76% connected

To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Confuse 76% connected

Mixed; confounded.

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Congregate 76% connected

Collected; compact; close.

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Constellate 76% connected

To join luster; to shine with united radiance, or one general light.

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Convene 76% connected

To come together; to meet; to unite.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Converge 76% connected

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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Flock 76% connected

A company or collection of living creatures; -- especially applied to sheep and birds, rarely to persons or (except in the plural) to cattle and othe…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Fort 76% connected

A strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisa…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Group 76% connected

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hive 76% connected

A box, basket, or other structure, for the reception and habitation of a swarm of honeybees.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Jumble 76% connected

To mix in a confused mass; to put or throw together without order; -- often followed by together or up.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Make 76% connected

A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meet 76% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Reassemble 76% connected

To assemble again.

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Derivationally related 6

Accumulation 74% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Accumulation 74% connected

The act of accumulating, the state of being accumulated, or that which is accumulated; as, an accumulation of earth, of sand, of evils, of wealth, of…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assembly 74% connected

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Assembly 74% connected

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Causes 4

Forgather 72% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Gather 72% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Meet 72% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 6

Foregather 92% connected

Same as Forgather.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Forgather 92% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Gather 92% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Meet 92% connected

To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as d…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Piece 92% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Tack 92% connected

A stain; a tache.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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