Word Finder - gathered

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To collect; normally separate things.

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I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.

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To bring parts of a whole closer.

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She gathered the shawl about her as she stepped into the cold.

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To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.

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From his silence, I gathered that things had not gone well.

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(of a boil or sore) To be filled with pus

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Salt water can help boils to gather and then burst.

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To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.

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To gain; to win.

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Focused, centered, achieving a state of shared mysticism.

People gathered around them to ask questions.

Tears gathered in her eyes.

Finally Miss Clara gathered her papers.

She gathered her things and left.

Miss Clara gathered her papers and smiled up at him.

The grass was as green as though it was springtime, and the golden ears of corn gathered together in heaps in the great fields looked very pretty.

A party of Bird Song's male residents plus the Dawkins gals had gathered in the parlor.

She fed them and gathered the few eggs they had laid after she gathered them yesterday.

Once we were sated and gathered in the living room Betsy began work on her computer.

Gathered together upstairs, we heard their report.

On Saturday morning Howie spoke up as we gathered for coffee.

After another half an hour, she gathered up a small backpack she'd found in a closet.

Exhaustion eventually ended the game and everyone but Dulce gathered in the kitchen for an ice cream snack.

She gathered it in a hug and smelled deeply of it.

Katie gathered her clothes into a wool satchel and slung it over her shoulder.

My wife refused to hear my recorded conversation until we gathered the group the following weekend.

Deidre gathered her composure with some difficulty and walked down the hallway, pausing four doors down to her room.

Dean asked as he gathered up his dishes.

Small clusters of people were gathered at every vantage point.

His hospital companions, who had gathered round Rostov--a fresh arrival from the world outside--gradually began to disperse as soon as Denisov began reading his answer.

She pulled out waterproof ankle boots and her thick, lamb's wool-lined coat then quickly gathered her toiletries and packed an overnight bag.

Victor gathered up Cassandra and hurried to the door cursing, then yelled back, "This is not over!"

After feeding and watering the chickens, she gathered the eggs and headed for the house.

The healers. village consisted of several dozen cottages around a central square, in which many of the village.s people gathered and talked or cooked meals over red flames.

But such undercurrents still existed among the people and gathered new forces ready to manifest themselves just as strangely, unexpectedly, and at the same time simply, naturally, and forcibly.

She smelt of the flowers, but showed no desire to pluck them; and, when I gathered a few for her, she refused to have them pinned on her dress.

The four of us gathered in the Le Blanc living room as soon as greetings were exchanged.

Dean remembered the open window and the guests gathered outside on the back patio.

He gathered her warm body in his arms and smoothed away the curls that clung to his face, breathing her deep scent before he dropped into the first peaceful slumber in ages.

While the need for such meetings wasn't as dire or sinister as the first few days after Bird Song's opening, the three still gathered here, away from the guests, especially when they wished to discuss one or more of their paying customers beyond their prying ears.

The room was a-chatter with foreign conversation, the words having nothing to do with national roots but the fanatic avocation of the gathered guests.

One cold night in winter the serving men of the abbey were gathered in the great kitchen.

After supper they all gathered in the room with the tree.

To the same great rendezvous other leaders also gathered, some of higher rank than Godfrey or Raymund or Bohemund, but none destined to exercise an equal influence on the fate of the Crusade.

Denisov was shown to the room prepared for him, and the Rostovs all gathered round Nicholas in the sitting room.

Their hair is generally shaved, excepting a topknot; and when not shaved it gets into a matted, tangled mass, gathered into a knot behind or on the crown.

His arguments and exhortations may be gathered from many of his epistles and from his tract Adversus Helvidium, in which he defends the perpetual virginity of Mary against Helvidius, who maintained that she bore children to Joseph.

Corps had gathered.

Taking Hierocles as authority, the extent of the two provinces at the beginning of the 6th century will be readily gathered from the accompanying list, in which those towns which coined money under the Roman empire are italicized and the name of the nearest modern village is appended.

There are altogether 423 verses, gathered from various older sources, and strung together without any other internal connexion than that they relate more or less to the same subject.

Still the revolt gathered strength.

Henceforward He was to be found, with His disciples, on the shore of the lake, where vast multitudes gathered round Him, drawn not only from Galilee and Judaea, but also from the farther districts north and east of these.

It may be that if this document had come down to us in its entirety, we should have gathered from it an exaggerated idea of the severity of our Lord's character.

In his first two chapters he gives an account of the birth and childhood of St John the Baptist and of our Lord Himself, gathered perhaps directly from the traditions of the Holy Family, and written in close imitation of the sacred stories of the Old Testament which were familiar to him in their Greek translation.

Triscott was speedily gathered and met and defeated the rebels.

The seeds must be from ripe fruit, and if fresh gathered should be freed from pulp by maceration in water.

Towards the end of his career Gerhard Groot retired to his native town of Deventer, in the province of Overyssel and the diocese of Utrecht, and gathered around him a number of those who had been "converted" by his preaching or wished to place themselves under his spiritual guidance.

Thus was gathered at Constantinople, in the spring of 1 Ekkehard, Chronica, 214.

When the crusaders gathered at Venice in the autumn of 1202, it was found impossible to get together the 85,000 marks promised to Venice.

In Germany a child from Cologne, named Nicolas, gathered some 20,000 young crusaders by the like promises, and led them into Italy.