To gain; to win.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.
To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
To annul by legal means.
To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
To lose weight.
To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To bring to an inferior state or condition.
To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
To strike off the payroll.
To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
To reform a line or column from (a square).