| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather or amass something |
| Synonyms: | accrue, acquire, add to, agglomerate, aggregate, amalgamate, assemble, bring together, cache, clean up, collect, collocate, compile, concentrate, cumulate, draw together, expand, gain, gather, grow, heap, heap together, hoard, incorporate, increase, load up, lump*, make a bundle, make a killing, mass, pile up, pile*, procure, profit, rack up, roll up, round up, scare up, stack up, stockpile, store, store up, swell, unite |
| Antonyms: | disperse, dissipate, dwindle, lessen, lose, spend, squander, waste |
| Main Entry: | bunch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather in group |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bundle, cluster, collect, congregate, cram, crowd, flock, group, herd, huddle, mass, pack |
| Antonyms: | disperse, divide, scatter, separate, spread |
| Main Entry: | collective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | composite |
| Synonyms: | aggregate, assembled, collated, combined, common, compiled, concentrated, concerted, conjoint, consolidated, cooperative, corporate, cumulative, gathered, grouped, heaped, hoarded, joint, massed, mutual, piled, shared, unified, united |
| Antonyms: | divided, separate |
| Main Entry: | concentrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, collect |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, bunch, center, centralize, cluster, coalesce, collect, combine, compact, compress, congest, conglomerate, congregate, consolidate, constrict, contract, converge, cramp, crowd, draw together, eliminate, embody, focalize, focus, forgather, garner, get to the meat, heap, heap up, hoard, huddle, integrate, intensify, localize, mass, muster, narrow, pile, reduce, salt away, store, strengthen, swarm, unify, zero in |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
| Main Entry: | congested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | blocked, clogged |
| Synonyms: | chock-full, choked, closed, crammed, crowded, filled, glutted, gorged, gridlocked, jam-full, jam-packed, jammed, massed, mobbed, obstructed, occluded, overcrowded, overfilled, overflowing, packed, packed like sardines, plugged, stopped, stoppered, stuffed, stuffed-up, teeming, up to the rafters |
| Antonyms: | clear, free, open, unblocked, unclogged, uncongested, uncrowded |
| Main Entry: | conglomerate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | composite |
| Synonyms: | amassed, assorted, blended, clustered, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, massed, melded, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, promiscuous, varied, variegated |
| Notes: | in geology, an agglomerate is a mass consisting of volcanic or eruptive fragments which have united under the action of heat - as opposed to a conglomerate, composed of waterworn fragments united by some substance in aqueous solution |
| Antonyms: | individual, separate, single |
| Main Entry: | congregate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, come together |
| Synonyms: | besiege, bunch up, collect, concentrate, congress, convene, converge, convoke, corral, flock*, forgather, gang around, gang up, gather, hang out*, make the scene, mass, meet, meet up, muster, pack, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, swarm, teem, throng |
| Antonyms: | divide, scatter, separate |
| Main Entry: | consolidate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | combine; make firm |
| Synonyms: | add to, amalgamate, amass, band, bind, blend, build up, bunch up, cement, centralize, compact, compound, concatenate, concentrate, condense, conjoin, connect, densen, develop, federate, fortify, fuse, harden, hitch, hitch on, hook up with, incorporate, join, league, mass, meld, mix, plug into, pool, reinforce, render solid, secure, set, slap on, solidify, stabilize, strengthen, tack on, tag on, team up with, thicken, throw in together, tie in, tie up with, unify |
| Antonyms: | disjoin, disperse, divide, part, separate |
| Main Entry: | crowd |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cram, press into area |
| Synonyms: | bear, bunch, bundle, chock, cluster, congest, congregate, crush, deluge, elbow, flock, gather, huddle, jam, jam-pack, justle, mass, muster, overcrowd, pack, pack 'em in, pack like sardines, pile, push, ram, sardine, shove, squash, squeeze, squish, stream, surge, swamp, swarm, throng, top off, troop |
| Antonyms: | abandon, leave, retreat |