Other forms: garnered, garnering, garners
To garner is to gather support or information bit by bit. Garner support, garner attention, garner praise.
It implies accumulation over time rather than a single acquisition, which is why it suits support, votes, praise and evidence. It is slightly formal and very common in journalism. The literal sense is to store grain, which is where the word comes from: a garner was a granary. Note that garner and garnish are unrelated, despite looking as though they should not be.
1verbgarnerTo gather support or information bit by bit.
“Her online petition garnered support from thousands of parents across the country.”
garner is a gathering.
Old French gernier is a variant of grenier, from Latin granarium, a granary. To garner was to put grain into store, and the modern sense keeps the gathering.
Latin
grānārium — granary
Old French
gernier
Middle English
gerner
English, today
garner
From Middle English gerner, from Old French gernier, guernier, variant of grenier, from Latin grānārium (“granary”). a doublet of granary.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA