MEANING
To gather or obtain something through effort or accumulation.
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Words that belong together
- garner support
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The proposal garnered support.
Her performance garnered several awards.
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Word forms
- Base
- garner
- Past tense
- garnered
- Past participle
- garnered
- Present participle
- garnering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- garner
- Present continuous
- am/is/are garnering
- Present perfect
- have/has garnered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been garnering
- Past
- garnered
- Past continuous
- was/were garnering
- Past perfect
- had garnered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been garnering
- Future
- will garner
- Future continuous
- will be garnering
- Future perfect
- will have garnered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been garnering
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: garner; garners; garnered; garnered; garnering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: garners.
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