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forgather
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, uniteROGET 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.For further exploring for "forgather" in Webster Dictionary Online