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CONGREGATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they congregate ... he / she / it congregates
Past simple: congregated
Past participle: congregated
-ing form: congregating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Come together, usually for a purpose
Example:
The crowds congregated in front of the Vatican on Christmas Eve
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "congregate" is one way to...):
assemble; foregather; forgather; gather; meet (collect in one place)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The crowds congregate in the streets
Derivation:
congregating; congregation (the act of congregating)
congregation (an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together)
congregation (a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church)
Context examples:
They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds—they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
