Crossword-Solution: GATHER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gather | v. t. | 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. |
| Gather | v. t. | 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. |
| Gather | v. t. | To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. |
| Gather | v. t. | 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. |
| Gather | v. t. | To derive, or deduce, as an inference; to collect, as a conclusion, from circumstances that suggest, or arguments that prove; to infer; to conclude. |
| Gather | v. t. | To gain; to win. |
| Gather | v. t. | 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. |
| Gather | v. t. | To haul in; to take up; as, to gather the slack of a rope. |
| Gather | v. i. | To come together; to collect; to unite; to become assembled; to congregate. |
| Gather | v. i. | To grow larger by accretion; to increase. |
| Gather | v. i. | To concentrate; to come to a head, as a sore, and generate pus; as, a boil has gathered. |
| Gather | v. i. | To collect or bring things together. |
| Gather | n. | A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker. |
| Gather | n. | The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward. |
| Gather | n. | The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See Gather, v. t., 7. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GATHER | anagram | GARETH, THERAG |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with GATHER (5)
Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race.
The Earth was form’d, but in the Womb as yet Of Waters, Embryon immature involv’d, Appeer’d not: over all the face of Earth Main Ocean flow’d, not idle, but with warme Prolific humour soft’ning all her Globe, Fermented the great Mother to conceave, Satiate with genial moisture, when God said Be gather’d now ye Waters under Heav’n Into one place, and let dry Land appeer.
Oak had hardly time to gather up these impressions into a thought, and to see how strangely the red feather of her hat shone in this light, when the tall tree on the hill before-mentioned seemed on fire to a white heat, and a new one among these terrible voices mingled with the last crash of those preceding.
But those dread mysteries speech may not profane Thyself shalt gather coming there alone; Since not to any of thy subjects, nor To my own children, though I love them dearly, Can I reveal what thou must guard alone, And whisper to thy chosen heir alone, So to be handed down from heir to heir.
For the sake of the minister’s health, and to enable the leech to gather plants with healing balm in them, they took long walks on the sea-shore, or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.
Quotes with GATHER (3)
Happiness is a good business these days, more you talk crap about happiness the large number of crowd you will gather.
I'm infatuated with you, I cannot deny it. Physically speaking, you're a very attractive man. But I don't like you, the vast majority of the time. So far as I can gather, you behave abominably in public and are only marginally better in private. I only find you remotely tolerable when you're kissing me.
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 49 times in crossword archives (1958–2024).