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Gathered   /gˈæðərd/   Listen
Gathered

adjective
1.
Brought together in one place.  Synonym: collected.  "The gathered folds of the skirt"  Antonyms: uncollected, ungathered.


Gather

verb
(past & past part. gathered; pres. part. gathering)
1.
Assemble or get together.  Synonyms: collect, garner, pull together.  "Pull your thoughts together"  Antonym: spread.
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



... nose in a curving billow that came inboard and swept aft. With her small area of exposed sail and with the wind buffeting her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway. She got several wallops of the same sort before she had gathered herself enough to head ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... and made a dash for the open entrance of the general store of the village. The usual crowd of loiterers was gathered there. ...
— Ralph on the Engine - The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail • Allen Chapman
... It started with haemorrhage, and some of the blood got into the lungs, and caused pneumonia. He is better now, nearly well, in fact. The prison doctor seemed a sensible man, and he spoke as if he were interested in Michael. From what he said I gathered that he did not think Michael would survive another winter there. The prison[1] stands in a sort of marsh. It is a very good place to prevent prisoners escaping, but not a good place for them to keep alive in. The doctor ...
— Prisoners - Fast Bound In Misery And Iron • Mary Cholmondeley
... multitude of defects with which they are surrounded, can be the work only of him who, having a mind always alive to his art, has extended his views to all ages and to all schools; and has acquired from that comprehensive mass which he has thus gathered to himself a well-digested and perfect idea of his art, to which everything is referred. Like a sovereign judge and arbiter of art, he is possessed of that presiding power which separates and attracts ...
— Albert Durer • T. Sturge Moore
... thus formed have exceeded in bulk the rocks that gave them birth. Something analogous to vital growth takes place. It seems as if the original granite centres set the world-building forces at work. They served as nuclei around which the materials gathered. These rocks bred other rocks, and these still others, and yet others, till the framework of the land was fairly established. They were like the pioneer settlers who plant homes here and there in the wilderness, and then in due time ...
— Time and Change • John Burroughs


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