congregate
KONG-grih-gaytverbMeaning to gather together in a crowd
Memory hook a CONGA line at the GATE. When the band strikes up, the whole street forms a conga line at the garden gate; when people gather in a crowd like that, they congregate.
Every evening the ducks congregate near the bench where Granny Mae sits.
In context On hot afternoons the town’s teenagers congregate at the public pool; by four o’clock there is hardly room to spread a towel.
Similar gather, assemble, flock, cluster
Opposite disperse, scatter
From Latin congregare, “to flock together”: com- (together) + grex (flock).