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Synonyms:

(verb) accumulate, accrete, amass, assemble, assume, bulk (up), collect, concentrate, congregate, constellate, corral, crop, garner, glean, group, hoard, infer, lump, pick up, pluck, reap, round up, understand, 

Related Words:

assemble, choose, cluster, collect, conclude, congregate, convene, converge, crowd, draw, expect, flock, hear, huddle, learn, make, meet, pick, round up, show up.

Antonyms:

dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter, separate.

Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):

Gather, assemble, collect, muster, and marshal imply bringing or drawing together. 

Gather expresses the general idea usually with no implication of arrangement: 
to gather seashells. 

Assemble is used of objects or facts brought together preparatory to arranging them: 
to assemble data for a report. 

Collect implies purposeful accumulation to form an ordered whole: 
to collect evidence. 

Muster, primarily a military term, suggests thoroughness in the process of collection: 
to muster all one's resources. 

Marshal, another term primarily military, suggests rigorously ordered, purposeful arrangement: 
to marshal facts for effective presentation.

Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):

Gather, collect, assemble, and congregate mean to come or bring together into a group, mass, or unit. 

Gather is the most general term for bringing or coming together from a spread-out or scattered state: 
a crowd quickly gathered. 

Collect often implies careful selection or orderly arrangement:
collected books on gardening. 

Assemble implies an ordered union or organization of persons or things often for a definite purpose: 
experts assembled for a conference. 

Congregate implies a spontaneous flocking together into a crowd or huddle:
congregating under a shelter.

Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):

Infer, deduce, conclude, judge, and gather mean to arrive at a mental conclusion. 

Infer implies arriving at a conclusion by reasoning from evidence; if the evidence is slight, the term comes close to surmise:
from that remark, I inferred that they knew each other. 

Deduce often adds to infer the special implication of drawing a particular inference from a generalization: 
denied we could deduce anything important from human mortality. 

Conclude implies arriving at a necessary inference at the end of a chain of reasoning:
concluded that only the accused could be guilty. 

Judge stresses a weighing of the evidence on which a conclusion is based:
judge people by their actions. 

Gather suggests an intuitive forming of a conclusion from implications:
gathered their desire to be alone without a word.

Origin:

before 900; Middle English gaderen,Old English gaderian, derivative of geador together, akin to gæd fellowship; cf. together, good. Dictionary 2: Old English gadrian; related to Old Frisian gaderia, Middle Low German gaderen. —Dictionary.com. // 

First Known Use of gather: Verb: before the 12th century. Noun: 1555. History and Etymology for gather: Verb: Middle English gaderen, from Old English gaderian; akin to Middle High German gadern to unite — more at good. Noun: derivative of gather entry 1. —Merriam-Webster.

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