muster
muh ster
- n a gathering of military personnel for duty
he was thrown in the brig for missing muster - n compulsory military service
- v gather or bring together
muster the courage to do something - v call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.
- But it's hard to muster a ton of sympathy for a guy profiting handsomely from a hatchet job on his own sister regardless of how miserably she may have treated him.
- When NBC's Matt Lauer asked her whether it was hard to find words to reassure the public, she tried to muster optimism, then circled back to despair.
- His liver and kidneys had nearly quit, and he could hardly muster the strength to lift his head off the pillow.