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amass

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a·mass  (-ms)
v. a·massed, a·mass·ing, a·mass·es
v.tr.
1. To gather for oneself, as for one's pleasure or profit: amassed a fortune. See Synonyms at gather.
2. To accumulate or assemble a large quantity of: "The astronomers had amassed compelling evidence that the galaxies indeed were speeding away from the earth and from each other" (George Johnson).
v.intr.
To come together; collect.

[Middle English, to accumulate, from Old French amasser, to assemble : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + masser, to gather together (from Latin massa, lump, mass; see mass).]

a·massa·ble adj.
a·masser n.
a·massment n.

amass [əˈmæs]
vb
1. (tr) to accumulate or collect (esp riches, etc.)
2. to gather in a heap; bring together
[from Old French amasser, from masse mass]
amasser  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.amassamass - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
backlog - accumulate and create a backlog
accrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion"
drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
2.amassamass - get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
run up - pile up (debts or scores)
corral - collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"
collect, pull in - get or bring together; "accumulate evidence"
scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
chunk, lump - put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants"
bale - make into a bale; "bale hay"
catch - take in and retain; "We have a big barrel to catch the rainwater"
fund - accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability; "fund a medical care plan"
fund - place or store up in a fund for accumulation
salt away, stack away, stash away, store, hive away, lay in, put in - keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"

amass
verb collect, gather, assemble, compile, accumulate, aggregate, pile up, garner, hoard, scrape together, rake up, heap up We didn't enquire as to how he had amassed his fortune.
Translations
amass [əˈmæs] VT [+ wealth, information] → acumular

amass [əˈmæs] vt [+ wealth, money] → amasser; [+ collection] → amasser; [+ points, goals] → accumuler; [+ evidence] → accumuler
to amass a fortune → amasser une fortune

amass
vtanhäufen; money alsoscheffeln; fortune, material, evidence alsozusammentragen

amass [əˈmæs] vtaccumulare, ammassare

amass
v amass [əˈmӕs]
to gather or collect in a large quantity He amassed an enormous quantity of information. vergaar يَجْمَع، يُكَدِّس натрупвам kupit, shromažďovat samle sammen; akkumulere anhäufen συγκεντρώνω σε μεγάλη ποσότητα acumular koguma گرد آوردن؛ جمع کردن haalia accumuler לֶאֱסוֹף, לִצבּוֹר संचित करना prikupiti felhalmoz mengumpulkan, menumpuk safna, raka saman accumulare ためる …을 모으다 (su)kaupti vākt; uzkrāt mengumpulkan verzamelen samle, hope opp gromadzić juntar a acumula, a aduna накапливать zhromaždiť zbrati nagomilavati samla [] รวบรวม biriktirmek, toplamak 收集,累積 збирати(ся) ڈھیر لگانا ، زیادہ تعداد میں جمع کرنا tích luỹ


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The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
My father, you know, was something of a miser, and in his latter days especially saw no pleasure in life but to amass riches; and so it is no wonder that his son should make it his chief delight to spend them, which was accordingly the case, until my acquaintance with you, dear Helen, taught me other views and nobler aims.
He could see himself as he would go forth with Rose, leaving behind the woman he had never loved and all that he had toiled so many years to amass.
 
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