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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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
Oh, it's perfectly clear That there's change when the critics forgather.
From Time Magazine Archive
There it was that the party chiefs were wont to forgather.
From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir
Barty was a man's man par excellence, and loved to forgather with men.
From The Martian by Du Maurier, George
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