Meaning & use
congregating
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Gathering together into a crowd or assembly.
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Students were congregating outside the lecture hall before the exam.
Birds began congregating on the wires as the storm approached.
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Comes from the Latin grex, 'flock', the same root as 'gregarious'.
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