All gather antonyms

verb gather

• smooth — free from projections or unevenness of surface; not rough: smooth wood; a smooth road.
• disperse — to drive or send off in various directions; scatter: to disperse a crowd.
• dissemble — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• scatter — to throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals: to scatter seeds.
• reject — to refuse to have, take, recognize, etc.: to reject the offer of a better job.
• squander — to spend or use (money, time, etc.) extravagantly or wastefully (often followed by away).
• 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.
• 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.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• divide — to separate into parts, groups, sections, etc.
• separate — to keep apart or divide, as by an intervening barrier or space: to separate two fields by a fence.
• spread — to draw, stretch, or open out, especially over a flat surface, as something rolled or folded (often followed by out).
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• 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.
• 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.
• waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
• 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.
• 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.
• distribute — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
• 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.
• disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• disbelieve — to have no belief in; refuse or reject belief in: to disbelieve reports of UFO sightings.
• repulse — to drive back; repel: to repulse an assailant.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• know — to perceive or understand as fact or truth; to apprehend clearly and with certainty: I know the situation fully.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• insert — to put or place in: to insert a key in a lock.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• lessen — to become less.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.