muster
/ˈmʌstɚ/ verb C2- To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like (especially of a military force); to come together as parts of a force or body.
- To collect, call or assemble together, such as troops or a group for inspection, orders, display etc.
- To enroll (into service).
- To look within oneself to summon (a particular positive quality, such as strength, energy or courage); see: muster up. · I couldn't muster the courage to tell him.
He/she/it musters · Past mustered · Past participle mustered · -ing form mustering
Verb forms
- Base form
- muster
- He/she/it
- musters
- Past
- mustered
- Past participle
- mustered
- -ing form
- mustering
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“I was about to be mustered into the Royal Marines when he fell.”
He had a horror of destroying documents, especially those which were connected with his past cases, and yet it was only once in every year or two that he would muster energy to docket and arrange them; for, as I have mentioned somewhere in these incoherent memoirs, the outbursts of passionate energy when he performed the remarkable feats with which his name is associated were followed by reactions of lethargy during which he would lie about with his violin and his books, hardly moving save from the sofa to the table.
“Muster up all your courage, then, for never have you required it more.”
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