gleanverb [ T ]
uk/ɡliːn/us/ɡliːn/to collect information in small amounts and often with difficulty:
From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good.
They're leaving on Tuesday - I managed to glean that much (from them).
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Collecting and amassing
- a pack rat idiom
- accumulate
- amass
- assemble
- bank
- bunch
- collect
- collector's item
- compilation
- concentration
- garner
- gather
- harvest
- load up on sth
- magpie
- numismatics
- philatelist
- philately
- scrape
- store
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