garner up
C1 formal separable transitive
In simple words
To collect and save things, especially things that are valuable or important.
Literal meaning: To bring grain up into a granary for storage.
Meanings
1 C1 formal
To collect and store resources, goods, or intangible things for future use.
"The monks garnered up enough grain to last through the long winter."
Grammar: separable
2 C1
idiomatic
formal
To accumulate praise, experience, or other abstract things over time.
"Over decades of study, she had garnered up a remarkable store of botanical knowledge."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Largely archaic; the base verb 'garner' is still used in formal/literary writing (e.g. 'garner support'), but the 'garner up' form is rare. Rooted in the agricultural sense of storing grain in a granary.
Commonly used with
grain resources knowledge support wealth harvest
Forms
Base
garner up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
garners up
he/she/it
Past simple
garnered up
yesterday
Past participle
garnered up
have + pp
-ing form
garnering up
continuous
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