gathered
Gathered is the past tense and past participle of the verb gather. It typically means to bring together or collect something, or to cause people or things to come to a single place. As a transitive verb, gathered can describe actions like gathering crops, data, or objects: for example, "They gathered apples from the orchard." As an intransitive verb, it can indicate people or things coming together: "The crowd gathered outside the hall." It appears in perfect tenses as has gathered or had gathered.
As an adjective, gathered describes something that has been assembled or collected. It is used to signal
Usage notes and nuances: gathered emphasizes completion or culmination more than the process of gathering. It