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
Oh, it's perfectly clear That there's change when the critics forgather.
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
Doctors and chaplains and the teamsters, and Dick Ewell will forgather all right ——!
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
We’se gie ae night’s discharge to care, If we forgather, An’ hae a swap o’ rhymin’-ware Wi’ ane anither.
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
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