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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
assemble (verb)
transitive verb
1.
to bring together (as in a particular place or for a particular purpose)
2.
intransitive verb
to fit together the parts of to meet together - convene gather
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
assemble (verb)
1.
to come together into one body or place
SYNONIMS:
cluster, collect, concenter, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, convene, converge, forgather ( foregather), gather, meet, rendezvous
RELATED WORDS:
affiliate, ally, associate, band (together), caucus, club, collaborate, confederate, conjoin, consolidate, consort, cooperate, couple, federate, gang up, join, merge, unite; reassemble, reconvene, regather, remeet
get together
NEAR ANTONYMS:
depart, leave, take off; disjoin, dissociate, disunite
break up, disband, disperse, split (up)
assemble (verb)
2.
to form by putting together parts or materials
SYNONIMS:
assemble, confect, construct, erect, fabricate, make, make up, piece, put up, raise, rear, set up
RELATED WORDS:
carpenter, fashion, forge, frame, hammer, handcraft, manufacture, mold, produce, shape; prefabricate; begin, coin, create, generate, inaugurate, initiate, innovate, invent, originate; constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize; conceive, concoct, contrive, cook (up), design, devise, imagine, think (up); reassemble, rebuild, reconstruct, redevelop, reedify [], retrofit; jerry-build, rig (up), throw up; combine, unite
NEAR ANTONYMS:
demolish, destroy, devastate, flatten, level, pull down, pulverize, raze, ruin, ruinate, shatter, smash, wreck; blow up, explode; detach, disengage; disconnect, disjoin, disunite, divide, separate
demount, disassemble, dismantle, dismember, knock down, strike, take down, tear down
assemble (verb)
3.
to bring together in assembly by or as if by command
SYNONIMS:
assemble, call, convene, muster, summon
RELATED WORDS:
rally; call in, call out, call up, knell; amass, collect, gather, group, round up; reassemble, reconvene
NEAR ANTONYMS:
break up, dissolve
assemble (verb)
4.
to bring together in one body or place
SYNONIMS:
accumulate, amass, assemble, bulk (up), collect, concentrate, congregate, constellate, corral, garner, group, lump, pick up, round up
RELATED WORDS:
ball, batch, bunch, cluster, huddle; heap, pile, stack; band, brigade, muster, raise, rally; flock, herd, hive, pack, press, swarm, throng; combine, connect, join, link, merge, pool, unite; archive, arrange, collate, compile, organize, systematize; scrape (up together); re-collect, regather, regroup
NEAR ANTONYMS:
break up, disband, disintegrate, dissolve, separate, sever, split (up); dismiss, send
dispel, disperse, dissipate, scatter

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