Synonyms for glean
glinglean

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. gleanverb

   To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit.

   Synonyms:
   learn

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.0 / 4 votes

1. reap, harvest, gleanverb

   gather, as of natural products

   "harvest the grapes"

   Synonyms:
   reap, harvest, draw

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1. • Collect

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. gleanverb

   Synonyms:
   gather (after reapers)

2. gleanverb

   Synonyms:
   collect, cull, pick up

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How to say glean in sign language?

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How to use glean in a sentence?

1. Jordan Belfort:

   No matter what happened to you in your past, you are not your past, you are the resources and the capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for all change.

2. Nanette Wenger:

   They're looking really at the correlation between the emergency room doctor, who was really the triage doctor who decides to admit the patient to the hospital, and it's a very limited look, i'm not sure what we can glean from it.

3. Aloo Denish Obiero:

   History is a sagacious narrator, softly imparting its wisdom to those who are willing to glean lessons from the echoes of bygone eras.

4. Eric Creizman:

   Our client maintained his innocence since day one, so we went to trial and put up the best fight we possibly could, it was a well tried case, an interesting case, because the whole thing was what they could glean from his state of mind from things he did, on the Internet and on the computer.