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.
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Oh, it's perfectly clear That there's change when the critics forgather.
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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.
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Here each night in the public-bar, or in the private-parlour, according to their social status, the inhabitants would forgather and discuss the problem of the mysterious letters.
From Malcolm Sage, Detective by Jenkins, Herbert George
"Have no fear on that score, Madam," replied the priest; "and if so it may be, let us forgather to-night."
From The Decameron, Volume II by Rigg, J. M. (James Macmullen)
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