Synonyms and Antonyms of gather
1
to bring together in one body or place
- he gathered the leftovers from the table and gave them to the dog
- let's gather the students and have them line up on the playground before going in from recess
accumulate, amass, assemble, bulk (up), collect, concentrate, congregate, constellate, corral, garner, group, lump, pick up, round up
ball, batch, bunch, cluster, huddle
heap, pile, stack
band, brigade, muster, raise, rally
flock, herd, hive, pack, press, swarm, throng
combine, connect, join, link, merge, pool, unite
archive, arrange, collate, compile, organize, systematize
scrape (up or together)
re-collect, regather, regroup
2
to catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use
- late summer is when we gather the tomatoes and begin canning them for the winter
clam, fish, seal, shrimp, whale
accumulate, forage, garner
glean
cut, hay, mow
bag, capture, hunt, net, snare, trap
crop, grow, raise
3
to come together into one body or place
- a crowd gathered around the street musician
- ask the faculty to gather in the lounge for the meeting
assemble, cluster, collect, concenter, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, convene, converge, forgather (or foregather), meet, rendezvous
affiliate, ally, associate, band (together), caucus, club, collaborate, confederate, conjoin, consolidate, consort, cooperate, couple, federate, gang up, join, merge, unite
reassemble, reconvene, regather, remeet
4
to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information
- I gather that, since you are back so early, she didn't want to see you?
