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glean
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- pronunciation:
- glin
- parts of speech:
- transitive verb, intransitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb)
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
gleans, gleaning, gleaned |
| definition 1: |
to gather or discover (facts, information, or the like) a little at a time.
By interviewing dozens of villagers, he was able to glean parts of the story that had never before come to light.Have you gleaned any information from the suspects?- similar words:
- cull, discover, find out, gather, learn, pick up
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| definition 2: |
to gather (grain that reapers have left behind).
- synonyms:
- gather
- similar words:
- collect, harvest, reap
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| related words: |
derive, realize, scrape, scratch |
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| definition 1: |
to gather or discover anything a little at a time.
- similar words:
- accumulate, amass
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| definition 2: |
to gather leftover grain from a field.
- similar words:
- harvest, reap
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| derivations: |
gleanable (adj.), gleaner (n.) |
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