Meaning of AMASS
| Pronunciation: | | u'mas
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- [v] collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
- [v] get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for athe man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
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AMASS is a 5 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | accumulate, accumulate, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, hoard, pile up, pile up |
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| | See Also: | | accrete, backlog, bale, catch, chunk, come up, corral, drift, fund, hive away, increase, lay in, lump, pull in, put in, run up, salt away, scrape, scrape up, stack away, stash away, store | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\A*mass"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amassed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Amassing}.] [F. ambusher, LL. amassare; L. ad + massa lump,
mass. See {Mass}.]
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity
of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to
amass words or phrases.
The life Homer has been written by amassing all the
traditions and hints the writers could meet with.
--Pope.
Syn: To accumulate; heap up; pile.
\A*mass"\, n. [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.]
A mass; a heap. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
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