Dictionary

begather en · VERB

Etymology

From be- + gather. Cognate with Middle Dutch begaderen.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To gather about; gather round; assemble.
   • Your birthday was in the drying and browning month of my mother's death. I took how Summer tossed your heart at me and made a cornucopia of a snake, my crown. Snake's tongue begathers Winter's sway. 1989, Lynn Lonidier, Clitoris lost:
   • Their horrible glee The phantoms forsaking, about her chill form Loud mocking begather! Yet fiercer the storm Shocks onward terrific — A thunderbolt falls! — Oaks crash down heart-shatter'd! 1907, Edward Hardingham, Lays and legends of the forest of Essex:

Forms

Synonyms

collect · forgather