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GATHER UP
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gather up mean?
• GATHER UP (verb)
The verb GATHER UP has 2 senses:
Familiarity information: GATHER UP used as a verb is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Take and lift upward
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "gather up" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gather or collect
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
call for; collect; gather up; pick up
Context example:
They pick up our trash twice a week
Hypernyms (to "gather up" is one way to...):
acquire; get (come into the possession of something concrete or abstract)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
“I can see where they have stooped to gather up the shaft.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“By St. Christopher! it is indeed a fair and goodly life which you have chosen, for you gather up the spoil as a Warsash man gathers lobsters, without grace or favor from any man.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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