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
Their meetings are interrupted by the advent of winter, but he finds her again at the feast of Venus, when shepherds, fauns, and nymphs forgather at the temple of the goddess.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
There was no joking here, nor that elephantine persiflage which marks rough men when they forgather in the wilderness.
From The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
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