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Gathered

adjective

1.

Brought together in one place. Synonym: collected. "The gathered folds of the skirt"

Gather

verb

(past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)

1.

Assemble or get together. Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together. "Pull your thoughts together"

2.

Collect in one place. Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet. "Let's gather in the dining room"

3.

Collect or gather. Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pile up. "The work keeps piling up"

4.

Conclude from evidence.

5.

Draw together into folds or puckers. Synonyms: pucker, tuck.

6.

Get people together. Synonyms: assemble, get together. "Get together all those who are interested in the project" , "Gather the close family members"

7.

Draw and bring closer.

8.

Look for (food) in nature.

9.

Increase or develop. Synonym: gain. "The car gathers speed"

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"Gathered" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment, despite opposition, protestations, pleas and sobs, twenty thousand children have commenced their march to Palestine. On they move, banners flying, songs and cheers floating on the clear air, and while there is many a dimmed eye and choked voice among those gathered to see them start, in the ranks of the Crusaders there is only enthusiasm and joy. On to victory! is their cry as they disappear behind the hills, a winding ribbon of humanity, and soon the sound of their cheers and ...

— Ten Boys from History • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... little that night. There was about a foot of snow on the ground and they scraped bare a place for their camp-fire beside a big stump and gathered enough fuel from windfalls for the night. Then they rolled a log beside the fire for a seat and built a soft bed with fragrant branches of hemlock and spruce. They roasted the chicken over a thick bed of glowing coals and baked potatoes in the ashes of the fire. The chicken was ...

— Dick in the Everglades • A. W. Dimock

... with the green vines and pale pink blossoms of the mayflower, and she felt its fragrant breath streaming up in the moist moonlight. As she leaned forward to look through a rocky crevice, her arms rested on a bed of that brittle white moss she had often gathered with so much admiration, and a scarlet rock-columbine, such as she loved to paint, brushed her cheek,—and all these mute fair things seemed to strive to keep her company in her chill suspense of watchfulness. Two whippoorwills, from a clump of silvery birches, kept calling to each other in ...

— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... have now gathered their strength. They are moving forward in their might and power—and no force, no combination of forces, no trickery, deceit, or violence, can stop them now. They see before them the hope of the world—a decent, secure, peaceful ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... were fast lengthening when he espied in the distance the squalid shacks and dilapidated teepees of the Breeds. There was a large colony of those wanderers of the West gathered together in the Foss River camp. We have said that these places are hot-beds of crime, a curse to the country; but that description scarcely conveys the wretched poverty and filthiness of these motley ...

— The Story of the Foss River Ranch • Ridgwell Cullum

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