muster

5 definitions • 7 examples

to produce or encourage something such as an emotion or support:

She managed to muster the courage to ask him to the cinema.

The team will need all the strength they can muster to win this game.

Opponents are unlikely to be able to muster enough votes to override the veto.

(especially of soldiers) to come together, especially in preparation for fighting, or to cause to do this:

The twelfth division mustered on the hill.

The general mustered his troops.

a group of people, especially soldiers, who have been brought together

to produce or encourage an emotion or support for something:

I shouted with all the lung power I could muster.

to gather together as a group or force, or to cause a force to gather, esp. in preparation for a fight:

[ T ] Opponents will have to muster at least 23 votes to defeat the bill.