Antonyms for convene
kənˈvincon·vene

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1. conveneverb

   Synonyms:
   summon, congregate, convoke, collect, meet, assemble, unite

2. conveneverb

   : To come together; to meet; to unite.

   Synonyms:
   summon, congregate, unite, collect, assemble, convoke, meet

3. conveneverb

   : To come together, as in one body or for a public purpose; to meet; to assemble.

   Synonyms:
   summon, congregate, assemble, convoke, collect, unite, meet

4. conveneverb

   : To cause to assemble; to call together; to convoke.

   Synonyms:
   convoke, unite, summon, collect, meet, assemble, congregate

5. conveneverb

   : To summon judicially to meet or appear.

   Synonyms:
   unite, summon, convoke, congregate, meet, assemble, collect

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1. convene

   A convention is called by some officer or officers, as by its president, its executive committee, or some eminent leaders; the delegates are assembled or convened in a certain place, at a certain hour. Convoke implies an organized body and a superior authority; assemble and convene express more independent action; Parliament is convoked; Congress assembles. Troops are mustered; witnesses and jurymen are summoned.

   Antonyms:
   adjourn, break up, disband, discharge, dismiss, disperse, dissolve, prorogue, scatter, separate

   Synonyms:
   assemble, call, call together, collect, convoke, gather, muster, summon

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1. convene

   Antonyms:
   disperse, dismiss, disband

   Synonyms:
   assemble, collect, gather, meet, congregate, call together, summon, muster, levy, convoke

Matched Categories

1. • Meet
   • Summon

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1. conveneverb

   meet formally

   "The council convened last week"

   Synonyms:
   convoke

2. convoke, conveneverb

   call together

   "The students were convened in the auditorium"

   Synonyms:
   convoke

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1. conveneverb

   Synonyms:
   assemble, convoke, congregate

How to use convene in a sentence?

1. Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan:

   As one of his final acts as U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C., Ronald Machen used his power as a political weapon to undermine the rule of law, machen was legally bound to convene a grand jury, but instead he ignored his obligation and unilaterally decided to ignore the will of the House. … This is wrong, and a great example of why so many Americans distrust their government.

2. Latin America:

   Let's do an audit vote by vote, i'll join (the audit). If there's fraud, the next day we'll convene a second-round.

3. Pima County Attorney Laura Conover:

   Our criminal prosecutors conducted a preliminary review to determine what additional aspects of the incident required further investigation to do this case justice, by early summer, it became clear we would begin the work to convene a grand jury to seek criminal charges.

4. Marco Rubio:

   Only America can convene Sunni forces from what I believe needs to be a combined Sunni force of Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians, Sunnis in Iraq, Sunnis in Syria to confront a radical Sunni movement and defeat them militarily. They will need our help in convening it, but it doesn't involve a full-scale U.S. invasion of Iraq.

5. Jens Stoltenberg:

   We are waiting for the answer to our proposal to convene a meeting addressing a wide range of important issues for European security.

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