PULL TOGETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pull together mean? 

• PULL TOGETHER (verb)
  The verb PULL TOGETHER has 1 sense:

1. assemble or get together

  Familiarity information: PULL TOGETHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PULL TOGETHER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Assemble or get together

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

collect; garner; gather; pull together

Context example:

pull your thoughts together

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pull together"):

nut (gather nuts)

heap up; pile up; stack up (arrange into piles or stacks)

shock (collect or gather into shocks)

clam (gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean)

pearl (gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean)

sponge (gather sponges, in the ocean)

oyster (gather oysters, dig oysters)

nest (gather nests)

bird-nest; birdnest (gather birdnests)

snail (gather snails)

marshal; mobilise; mobilize; summon (make ready for action or use)

cull; pick; pluck (look for and gather)

round up (seek out and bring together)

come up; muster; muster up; rally; summon (gather or bring together)

salvage; scavenge (collect discarded material)

hive (gather into a hive)

club (gather into a club-like mass)

glean; harvest; reap (gather, as of natural products)

rake (gather with a rake)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

"How well we pull together, don't we?" said Amy, who objected to silence just then.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)