amass
Etymology

From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa ("lump, mass").

Pronunciation
  • (RP, America) IPA: /əˈmæs/
Verb

amass (amasses, present participle amassing; simple past and past participle amassed)

  1. (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
  2. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
    to amass a treasure or a fortune
    to amass words or phrases
  3. (intransitive) To accumulate; to assemble.
Synonyms Translations Noun

amass (plural amasses)

  1. (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
    Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
    • 1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC ↗, I. part, page 38 ↗:
      [T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie.
  2. (obsolete) The act of amassing.



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