verb
1. take and lift upward (Freq. 2)
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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Something ——s somebody
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Something ——s something
2. gather or collect (Freq. 1)
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You can get the results on Monday
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She picked up the children at the day care center
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They pick up our trash twice a week
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Somebody ——s something
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Somebody ——s somebody
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ˌgather ˈup [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they gather up he/she/it gathers up present participle gathering up past tense gathered up past participle gathered up] phrasal verb
to pick up things from several different places and put them together
Janet quickly gathered up her books and left the classroom.
Thesaurus: to touch, or to pick up someone or somethingsynonym
Main entry: gather
Useful english dictionary. 2012.