All 5 Uses of
muster
in
Harry Potter (#5) and the Order of the Phoenix
- 'All righ', you two?' he said, trying to muster a smile but managing only a kind of pained grimace.†
Chpt 25
- Harry replied with the dirtiest look he could muster.†
Chpt 27 *
- Harry would normally have tried to persuade Hagrid out of this idea at once; the prospect of a second giant taking up residence in the Forest, possibly even wilder and more brutal than Grawp, was positively alarming, but somehow Harry could not muster the energy necessary to argue the point.†
Chpt 38
- It was just that he had never really understood what that meant… And yet sitting here on the edge of the lake, with the terriblc weight of grief dragging at him, with the loss of Sirius so raw and fresh inside, he could not muster any great sense of fear.†
Chpt 38
- There were no good hiding places nearby, she was bound to have heard his footsteps, and in any case, Harry could hardly muster the energy to avoid anyone at the moment.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(muster as in: muster strength or the crew) to gatherThe exact meaning of this sense of muster is often subject to its context. For example:
- "mustered her courage/strength/a smile" -- to gather from within
- "muster the soldiers/crew" -- to gather -- typically for inspection
- "muster volunteers/votes" -- to gather enough to do something