to regather

Examples

• All

• If they were one spreading tree years before, the leaves had long since scattered to the wind, and yet there Lyd sat hour after hour trying to regather them in.

  Fiction book (1995)

• From what we know of the meetings in the forest, the same sequence may take place; the groups may travel together until evening, visiting several feeding places, as if they were members of the same group, until sleeping sites are set up and the original groups regather.

  Academic text (1990)

• Eliza and the other children were made to walk out into the meadow the day after the dead were buried to regather bodies.

  Academic text (2011)

• A resurgent left slowly and arduously regathers people and resources to organize itself into a social force.

  Blog text (23)

• Only then, after the rubble of our current systems stops bouncing and the survivors of the collapse regather, in an environment with our extant political and economic systems defunct, will anything sustainable and relatively planet-friendly be able to be instituted.

  Blog text (8)

• After the storm passed, the volunteers worked to regather the scattered supplies to distribute them again.

• The team will regather at the same location after lunch to discuss their progress.

Synonyms

R

to reunite

vsto regather

138 3.2

To bring people or things back together after being apart

is identical in meaning and use

R

to rejoin

vsto regather

70 3.5

Come back together with someone or something after being apart

emphasizes collecting multiple parties rather than a single reentry

R

to regroup

vsto regather

66 4.1

Organize people or things again after a problem

prefers simple collection instead of reorganizing into new group structures

R

to recombine

vsto regather

3 5.5

To join things together again after they were separated

means bringing items together without mixing or altering their makeup

R

to reconsolidate

vsto regather

1 7.4

To bring separate parts back together into one group

focuses on general collection rather than forming one united whole

R

to reconverge

vsto regather

7.8

To meet again after being apart

implies active bringing together rather than passive movement toward a point

Antonyms

S

to scatter

110 2.7

To make people or animals move quickly in different directions

How Gathered

to reunite

138 3.2

to regather

1 3.9

to assemble

152 3.3

to collect

499 1.1

to pick up

∞ 2.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology