Antonyms

Definitions

v. 1
To collect normally separate things.
I've been gathering ideas from the people I work with.
v. 2
To collect normally separate things. Especially, to harvest food.
We went to gather some blackberries from the nearby lane.
v. 3
To collect normally separate things. To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
Over the years he'd gathered a considerable collection of mugs.
n. 1
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.

Word family: gatherer
Phrases: gather up gather steam gather dust gather pace gather speed gather one's thoughts gather one's wits gather rosebuds

Plural: gathers → get-togethers, get-ups, pile-ups, plicatures…
Past participle: gathered
e.g. gathered → collected, harvested, garnered, getten…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: get¹
4 letters: find¹, meet¹, pick¹, gain¹, crop¹, pile¹, fold¹, brew¹, reap¹, hive¹, tuck¹, rake¹, cull¹, shir¹
5 letters: group¹, learn¹, press¹, infer², hoard¹, pluck¹, amass², glean¹, plait¹
6 letters: garner², muster², scrape¹, deduce², accrue², ruffle², pucker²
7 letters: collect², acquire³, harvest², extract², procure², convene², aggroup
8 letters: increase², conclude², assemble³, cumulate, begather
9 letters: encounter³, apprehend³, forgather, plicature
10 letters: accumulate⁴, congregate³, foregather
11 letters: concentrate³, agglomerate⁴, togetherize
12 letters: conglomerate⁴

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (infer² = 2 syllables).