collect is one of the 1000 most common headwords.
colleague - collect - college

Pronunciation

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Plain form
collect

Third-person singular
collects

Past tense
collected

Past participle
collected

Present participle
collecting

  1. (transitive & intransitive) If you collect some things, you bring them together as a group.
    The study collected data from 562 mothers in the hospital.
    The rain collected in a pool.
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