MEANING
1. To gather crop left after the main harvest.
2. To gather information in small amounts from scattered sources.
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Words that belong together
- glean a field
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They gleaned the field after harvest.
She gleaned scattered ears of grain.
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Word forms
- Base
- glean
- Past tense
- gleaned
- Past participle
- gleaned
- Present participle
- gleaning
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- glean
- Present continuous
- am/is/are gleaning
- Present perfect
- have/has gleaned
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been gleaning
- Past
- gleaned
- Past continuous
- was/were gleaning
- Past perfect
- had gleaned
- Past perfect continuous
- had been gleaning
- Future
- will glean
- Future continuous
- will be gleaning
- Future perfect
- will have gleaned
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been gleaning
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Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: glean; gleans; gleaned; gleaned; gleaning Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: gleans.
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