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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| | 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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| | Related Terms: | | accouple, accumulate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, band, batch, bond, bracket, bridge, bridge over, bring together, bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up, cement, chain, clap together, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corral, couple, cover, cull, cumulate, dig up, draw together, dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, garner, garner up, gather, gather in, gather into barns, gather together, get in, get together, glean, glue, group, grub, grub up, heap up, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, include, join, juxtapose, keep, knot, lay together, lay up, league, link, lump together, make up, marry, marshal, mass, match, merge, mobilize, muster, pair, partner, pick, pick up, piece together, pile up, pluck, put together, put up, raise, rake up, rally, roll into one, roll up, round up, save, save up, scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secrete, set aside, solder, span, splice, squirrel, squirrel away, stock up, stockpile, store up, take in, take up, tape, tie, treasure, treasure up, unify, unite, weld, whip in, yoke |
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