All forgather antonyms

verb forgather

• enlarge — Make or become bigger or more extensive.
• expand — explain
• extend — Cause to cover a larger area; make longer or wider.
• scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
• release — to lease again.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• loosen — to unfasten or undo, as a bond or fetter.
• squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• stretch — to draw out or extend (oneself, a body, limbs, wings, etc.) to the full length or extent (often followed by out): to stretch oneself out on the ground.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• part — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• dissipate — to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel.
• spend — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
• let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
• spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
• throw away — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• give — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
• cancel — If you cancel something that has been arranged, you stop it from happening. If you cancel an order for goods or services, you tell the person or organization supplying them that you no longer wish to receive them.
• dissemble — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• allot — If something is allotted to someone, it is given to them as their share.
• misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
• grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• deal — If you say that you need or have a great deal of or a good deal of a particular thing, you are emphasizing that you need or have a lot of it.
• plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
• dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• lessen — to become less.
• play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• condense — If you condense something, especially a piece of writing or speech, you make it shorter, usually by including only the most important parts.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• denounce — If you denounce a person or an action, you criticize them severely and publicly because you feel strongly that they are wrong or evil.
• demolish — To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• raze — to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.