forgather
Americanverb (used without object)
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to gather together; convene; assemble.
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to encounter someone, especially by chance.
verb
Etymology
Origin of forgather
Example Sentences
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Oh, it's perfectly clear That there's change when the critics forgather.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wherever workers forgather, you may hear someone relate how he told the boss where to get off.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hundreds of them were flown in from Moscow to forgather in East Berlin's grim, hulking Ministry of the Interior, the headquarters of the nation's vast security-police network.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next time that we forgather, I’ll be better learned.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Then, naething would set the catamarans but to forgather privily wi' the Provost's ain butler, and tak' unto themselves the Provost's ain plate.
From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by William Ernest Henley
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