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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | meet, often secretly |
| Synonyms: | assemble, be closeted, be reunited, collect, come together, congregate, congress, converge, forgather, gather, get together, join up, meet behind closed doors, meet privately, muster, raise, rally |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dock |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | land on the waterfront |
| Synonyms: | anchor, berth, drop anchor, hook up, join, link up, moor, put in, rendezvous, tie up, unite |
| Notes: | a dock is the water next to a wharf or pier and it is not a solid thing, a wharf is built along and parallel to the shore, while a pier runs out and away from or at a right angle to the shore; dock was first a 'natural hollow or creek where a ship could stay at low water' |
| Antonyms: | set sail, ship out |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come together, convene |
| Synonyms: | appear, assemble, be introduced, be present, be presented, collect, congregate, converge, enter in, flock, foregather, gather, get to know, get together, join, make acquaintance, muster, open, rally, rendezvous, show, sit |
| Antonyms: | cancel |
| Main Entry: | muster |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather, come together |
| Synonyms: | assemble, call together, call up, collect, congregate, congress, convene, convoke, enroll, enter, group, join up, marshal, meet, mobilize, organize, raise, rally, rendezvous, round up, sign on, sign up, summon |
| Antonyms: | divide, remove, separate, throw away |
| Main Entry: | raise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggravate, amplify, assemble, boost, build up, collect, congregate, congress, dignify, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, fetch up, forgather, form, gather, get, goose up, goose, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, inflate, intensify, jack up, jump, jump up, levy, look up, magnify, mass, mobilize, mushroom, muster, obtain, perk up, pick up, promote, put up, pyramid, rally, recruit, reinforce, rendezvous, run up, send through the roof, shoot up, snowball, strengthen, up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' one rears children and raises crops |
| Antonyms: | decrease, depress, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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