Meaning

1 senses

  1. (idiomatic)To collect, assemble or gather small amounts (especially of money), from various sources, with some difficulty

Examples

4 sentences

  1. Tom's raking the leaves together in the garden.

    deTom recht im Garten das Laub zusammen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  2. It was used for raking together heaps of money.

    deEs diente dazu, Geldhaufen zusammenzurechen. — Tamy

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  3. Tom is raking the leaves together in the garden.

    deTom recht im Garten das Laub zusammen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  4. I'm raking together all the leaves in the garden.

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Forms

rakes together, raking together, raked together, raked together
Base formrake together · to rake together
3rd person singularrakes together
Present participleraking together
Past simpleraked together
Past participleraked together

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrake together
he, she, itrakes together

Past simpleLesson

all personsraked together

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave raked together
he, she, ithas raked together

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill rake together

Synonyms

2 synonyms
scrape togetherscratch together

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
raisinrajahrakerakirallyB2ramB2

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