forgather

• POS: Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: for=gath=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

forgather, v. i. 

 To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally.  Jamieson.  [1913 Webster]
"Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

forgather, v.intr. (also foregather) assemble; meet together; associate.

Etymology

16th-c. Sc. f. Du. vergaderen, assim. to FOR-, GATHER

THESAURUS

forgather

assemble, bunch, bunch up, clot, cluster, collect, come together, congregate, congress, converge, copulate, couple, crowd, date, flock together, flow together, fuse, gang around, gang up, gather, gather around, herd together, hive, horde, huddle, league, link, mass, meet, merge, mill, muster, raise, rally, rally around, rendezvous, seethe, stream, surge, swarm, throng, unite

ROGET THESAURUS

forgather

Assemblage

VB assemble, collect, muster, meet, unite, join, rejoin, cluster, flock, swarm, surge, stream, herd, crowd, throng, associate, congregate, conglomerate, concentrate, precipitate, center round, rendezvous, resort, come together, flock get together, pig together, forgather, huddle, reassemble, assemble, muster, bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together, collect, collocate, colligate, get, whip in, gather, hold a meeting, convene, convoke, convocate, rake up, dredge, heap, mass, pile, pack, put up, truss, cram, acervate, agglomerate, aggregate, compile, group, aggroup, concentrate, unite, collect into a focus, bring into a focus, amass, accumulate, collect in a dragnet, heap Ossa upon Pelion.