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单词 foregather
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Definition of foregather in English:

foregather

(also forgather)
verbfɔːˈɡaðə
[no object]formal
  • Assemble or gather together.

    〈正式〉聚集,集合

    most of the students had foregathered by this time
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Clearly, this meme was not going to be one that ‘replicates by symbiotically infecting human minds and altering their behaviour ‘, and I would become a laughing stock wherever memeticists foregather.’
    • Officers will foregather at City Hall at 2.15 p.m. before travelling.
    • This is just one of the many fascinating tales which are told and re-told wherever metallurgists foregather.
    • During the holidays a horde of in-laws forgathered at Dark Acres to play cards and gossip about horses.
    • Nationalist stalwarts foregather in Elgin tonight to adopt their candidate for the forthcoming Moray by-election, now declared for April 27.
    • The cannonade from the fleets was so violent that people along the west coast of Jutland were prevented from sleeping during the whole night, and foregathered on the beach.
    • Twenty-five years later they met again in Glasgow where, after more ‘foregathering’, they attempted to chuck stones into the outstretched hat of the statue of James Oswald MP in George Square, luckily without being arrested.
    • The interlude of peace as all the naked refugees foregather in an ineffectual attempt to understand their destiny is all too brief.
    • Because for hours upon the 28th of April 1923, North London was in utter chaos because so many people had foregathered at Wembley to see this magnificent new stadium which had just been constructed.
    • The Council took the view that states had a duty to suppress terrorist activity and to comply with any request for help in putting down adventurers forgathering within their jurisdiction.
    • Ten years out of school, three former high-school chums foregather in an East Lansing motel room.
    • He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather.
    Synonyms
    gather, collect, congregate, assemble, come together, get together, converge, convene, rally, rendezvous, muster, meet, mass, amass, crowd, throng, cluster, herd, group, bunch, swarm, huddle, mill

Origin

Late 15th century (originally Scots as forgadder): from Dutch vergaderen.

Rhymes

blather, gather, slather
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