FOREGATHER Synonyms

• a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

• make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays

• payable by the recipient on delivery

• get or gather together

• call for and obtain payment of

• assemble or get together

• get or bring together

• gather or collect

• sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching

• the act of gathering something

• assemble or get together

• collect in one place

• increase in amount by collecting or gathering

• conclude from evidence

• draw together into folds or puckers

• get people together

• draw and bring closer

• look for (food) in nature

• increase or develop

• a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held

• being precisely fitting and right

• come together

• get together socially or for a specific purpose

• be adjacent or come together

• fill, satisfy or meet a want or need or condition or restriction

• collect in one place

• get to know; get acquainted with

• meet by design; be present at the arrival of

• contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle

• experience as a reaction

• undergo or suffer

• be in direct physical contact with; make contact

• a grouping of a number of similar things

• come together as in a cluster or flock

• gather or cause to gather into a cluster

• come together, usually for a purpose

• meet formally

• call together

• a gathering of military personnel for duty

• compulsory military service

• gather or bring together

• call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.

• a meeting planned at a certain time and place

• a place where people meet

• a date; usually with a member of the opposite sex

• meet at a rendezvous

• act in concert or unite in a common purpose or belief

• become one

• have or possess in combination

• be or become joined or united or linked

• bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation

• join or combine

• come together, as if in an embrace

• collect in one place