gather

gather is a 6-letter English word with 26 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 26 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To pick out and bring together from among what is of less value; to collect, as a harvest; to harvest; to cull; to pick off; to pluck.
3. transitive verb. To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up.
4. transitive verb. To bring closely together the parts or particles of; to contract; to compress; to bring together in folds or plaits, as a garment; also, to draw together, as a piece of cloth by a thread; to pucker; to plait; as, to gather a ruffle.
5. transitive verb. To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude.
6. transitive verb. To gain; to win.
7. transitive verb. To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue, or the like.
8. transitive verb. To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope.
9. intransitive verb. To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate.
10. intransitive verb. To grow larger by accretion; to increase.
11. intransitive verb. To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered.
12. intransitive verb. To collect or bring things together.
13. noun. A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
14. noun. The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
15. noun. The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7.
16. noun. the act of gathering something

    Synonyms: gathering

17. noun. sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

    Synonyms: gathering

18. verb. increase or develop

    "the peace movement gained momentum"

    "the car gathers speed"

    Synonyms: gain

19. verb. collect or gather

    "Journals are accumulating in my office"

    "The work keeps piling up"

    Synonyms: accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate

20. verb. conclude from evidence

    "I gather you have not done your homework"

21. verb. look for (food) in nature

    "Our ancestors gathered nuts in the Fall"

22. verb. draw together into folds or puckers

    Synonyms: pucker, tuck

23. verb. draw and bring closer

    "she gathered her shawl around her shoulders"

24. verb. assemble or get together

    "gather some stones"

    "pull your thoughts together"

    Synonyms: collect, garner

25. verb. collect in one place

    "We assembled in the church basement"

    "Let's gather in the dining room"

    Synonyms: assemble, foregather, forgather, meet

26. verb. get people together

    "assemble your colleagues"

    "get together all those who are interested in the project"

    Synonyms: assemble

Synonyms

gathering, gain, accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, pucker, tuck, collect, garner, assemble, foregather, forgather, meet

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in gather:

gareth

Common word forms

gathers, gathered, gatherer, gathering, gatherable

Words from these letters

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