to bunch

Examples

• All

• Please bunch your papers together before handing them in.

• Your muscles are bunched up aching with tension.

  Closet Land (1991)

• Now, bunch them up so we can move out of here right away.

  The Last Sunset (1961)

• Keep them bunched real tight.

  No Regrets (2016)

• Don't bunch up down there!

  The Young Lions (1958)

• It's my guess they got most of the horses bunched out there in the rocks.

  Backlash (1956)

• The more they're bunched up for us, the better.

  Overlord (2018)

• At games, the kids bunched by grade, and within that bunch by cliques.

  Fiction book (1990)

• All we need worry about is sabotage, so we bunched our planes together to make them easier to protect.

  Pearl Harbor (2001)

• Haplo wiped sweat from his forehead, tried to relax; his muscles were bunched and aching from the strain.

  Fiction book (1991)

Synonyms

G

to gather

vsto bunch

∞ 1.0

Bring people, things, or information together in one place

expresses forming a collection but with less emphasis on purpose

A

to assemble

vsto bunch

177 3.3

To gather people in one place for a purpose

means forming a collection generally, not necessarily for a task

G

to gather around

vsto bunch

115 1.9

Come together in a group near someone or something

means making a collection without the surrounding or focusing action

R

to round up

vsto bunch

90 3.2

To bring people, animals, or things together in one place

is about forming a collection generally, not the herding action

F

to flock

vsto bunch

74 2.0

To move together in large numbers

is about forming a collection without implying large numbers or motion

B

to bundle

vsto bunch

62 2.9

To tie things together

means forming a collection but not necessarily binding or packaging it

G

to group

vsto bunch

47 1.2

To put people and things together by type or purpose

focuses on simply forming a collection rather than organized arrangement

C

to coalesce

vsto bunch

30 7.4

Come together to form one group or whole

refers to making a collection without implying full merging

M

to mass

vsto bunch

27 4.8

To come together in a large group

is the act of forming a collection, not stressing large scale

C

to cluster

vsto bunch

17 3.5

To come together in a small group or make people do the same

is the basic act of forming a collection, not its closeness

B

to bunch up

vsto bunch

13 3.3

To gather closely into a tight group

is about making a simple collection rather than an especially tight one

C

to clump

vsto bunch

11 4.4

To come together into a small, close group

means forming a collection but not necessarily very dense

C

to crowd together

vsto bunch

4 3.0

To stand or move closely in a group

refers to forming a collection but not emphasizing crowding

B

to bunch together

vsto bunch

4 3.1

To move or bring close together to form a small group

describes making a collection without stressing compactness

F

to flock together

vsto bunch

3 3.0

People and animals come together in a group for safety or shared interest

denotes forming a collection generally, not the attraction or size

A

to agglomerate

vsto bunch

1 8.4

To join together to form a mass or cluster

is about grouping without implying merging into one solid mass

C

to conglomerate

vsto bunch

1 6.3

To gather different things into one group

describes forming a collection without implying mixed origins

A

to aggroup

vsto bunch

9.9

To bring people or things together into a group

focuses on simple forming rather than deliberate assembling process

B

to beswarm

vsto bunch

• Archaic

9.9

To gather in large numbers around a person or place like a swarm

means forming a collection without the idea of covering or swarming

Antonyms

S

separate

844 2.1

Not joined to another thing and kept apart

D

to disperse

81 4.4

To cause people and things, like a crowd or fog, to spread over a wide area

Idioms

T

thanks a bunch

• Informal

6 7.7

An informal way of saying thank you very much

B

best of the bunch

• Informal

4 3.0

The person or thing that is better than all others in a group

G

to get one's panties in a bunch

• Informal

9.9

To become too upset about a small problem

Phrasal Verbs

B

to bunch up

13 3.3

To gather closely into a tight group

B

to bunch together

4 3.1

To move or bring close together to form a small group

Compounds

B

bunch grass

• Specialized

1 6.6

Grasses that grow in separate clumps instead of in one continuous area

B

bunch of presstitutes

• Offensive

1 9.9

An insulting phrase for journalists seen as biased and working for powerful people

B

bunch of bullbleep

• Offensive

9.9

Talk that is false and hard to believe

How Close

to pack together

4 3.0

to bunch

28 1.2

to gather

∞ 1.0

to come together

40 2.1

to spread out

84 3.1

Surface Forms

Etymology