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Gather

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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Manner of action 43

Accrete 76% connected

To grow together.

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Aggroup 76% connected

To bring together in a group; to group.

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Assemble 76% connected

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

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Backlog 76% connected

A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.

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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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Clam 76% connected

A bivalve mollusk of many kinds, especially those that are edible; as, the long clam (Mya arenaria), the quahog or round clam (Venus mercenaria), the…

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Club 76% connected

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

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Clump 76% connected

An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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Cluster 76% connected

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

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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.

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Converge 76% connected

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

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Crowd 76% connected

To push, to press, to shove.

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Cull 76% connected

To separate, select, or pick out; to choose and gather or collect; as, to cull flowers.

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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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…

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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…

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Glean 76% connected

To gather after a reaper; to collect in scattered or fragmentary parcels, as the grain left by a reaper, or grapes left after the gathering.

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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…

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Harvest 76% connected

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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Hive 76% connected

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

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Make 76% connected

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

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Marshal 76% connected

Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.

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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…

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Mobilize 76% connected

To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

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Muster 76% connected

Something shown for imitation; a pattern.

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Nest 76% connected

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

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Nut 76% connected

The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing…

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Oyster 76% connected

Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts,…

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Pearl 76% connected

A fringe or border.

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Pick 76% connected

To throw; to pitch.

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Pluck 76% connected

To pull; to draw.

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Rake 76% connected

An implement consisting of a headpiece having teeth, and a long handle at right angles to it, -- used for collecting hay, or other light things which…

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Rally 76% connected

To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite.

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Reap 76% connected

To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.

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Salvage 76% connected

The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.

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Scavenge 76% connected

To cleanse, as streets, from filth.

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Shell 76% connected

A hard outside covering, as of a fruit or an animal.

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Shock 76% connected

A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to sixteen; a stoo…

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Snail 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They…

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Sponge 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

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Summon 76% connected

To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.

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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.

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Aggregation 76% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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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.

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Assembling 76% connected

of Assemble

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Collecting 76% connected

of Collect

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Collection 76% connected

The act or process of collecting or of gathering; as, the collection of specimens.

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Conclude 76% connected

To shut up; to inclose.

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Conglomerate 76% connected

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

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Cumulate 76% connected

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

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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…

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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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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Pull 76% connected

To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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Reason 76% connected

A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered…

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Search 76% connected

To look over or through, for the purpose of finding something; to examine; to explore; as, to search the city.

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Seek 76% connected

Sick.

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Sew 76% connected

Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy.

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Sewing 76% connected

of Sew

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Stitch 76% connected

A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.

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Stitchery 76% connected

Needlework; -- in contempt.

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Centralization 76% connected

The act or process of centralizing, or the state of being centralized; the act or process of combining or reducing several parts into a whole; as, th…

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Harvest 76% connected

The gathering of a crop of any kind; the ingathering of the crops; also, the season of gathering grain and fruits, late summer or early autumn.

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Harvesting 76% connected

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Aggregation 74% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Aggregation 74% connected

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

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Assemblage 74% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Assemblage 74% connected

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

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Collect 74% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Collect 74% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Gatherer 74% connected

One who gathers or collects.

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Gatherer 74% connected

One who gathers or collects.

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Assemble 72% connected

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

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Forgather 72% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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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…

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Accumulate 92% connected

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

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Amass 92% 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.

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Assemble 92% connected

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

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Collect 92% connected

To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.

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Conglomerate 92% connected

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

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Cumulate 92% connected

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

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Foregather 92% connected

Same as Forgather.

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Forgather 92% connected

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.

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Gain 92% connected

A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam.

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Garner 92% connected

A granary; a building or place where grain is stored for preservation.

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Gathering 92% connected

of Gather

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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…

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Pucker 92% connected

To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth.

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Tuck 92% connected

A long, narrow sword; a rapier.

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