congregate

congregate
v. /kong"gri gayt'/; adj. /kong"gri git, -gayt'/, v., congregated, congregating, adj.
v.i.
1. to come together; assemble, esp. in large numbers: People waiting for rooms congregated in the hotel lobby.
v.t.
2. to bring together in a crowd, body, or mass; assemble; collect.
adj.
3. congregated; assembled.
4. formed by collecting; collective.
[1350-1400; ME (adj.) < L congregatus (ptp. of congregare to flock together), equiv. to con- CON- + greg- (s. of grex) flock + -atus -ATE1]
Syn. 1. gather, collect, throng, cluster.

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