Amass Definition

ə-măs
amassed, amasses, amassing
verb
amassed, amasses, amassing
To gather together or accumulate a large quantity of (something).
Amass evidence; amass a fortune.
American Heritage
To pile up; collect together.
Webster's New World
To be the site of (an increasing mass), especially as a result of neglect.
How long has the desk been amassing bills?
American Heritage
To accumulate (esp. wealth)
Webster's New World
To come together; collect.
Troops amassing on the border.
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noun
(obsolete) A mass; a heap.
Wiktionary

Origin of Amass

  • Middle English to accumulate from Old French amasser to assemble a- to (from Latin ad- ad–) masser to gather together (from Latin massa lump, mass mass)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French amasser, Late Latin amassare, ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.

    From Wiktionary

Amass Sentence Examples

  • It let her amass an army unlike any that had ever existed and showed her the key to victory.

  • It's possible to amass quite a menagerie.

  • The Greeks form a floating population of merchants and small traders, anxious to amass a fortune and return home.

  • In these circumstances there grew up in Rome a class of wealthy ' men, whose sole occupation it was to amass large fortunes by speculation,' and who found a most lucrative field of enterprise ' in state contracts and the farming of the public revenues.

  • Because there are no true objectives (other than to try to amass as much riches as possible, just like in real life), points, scores, or anything of that sort, Second Life technically isn't a "game" in the traditional sense of the word.

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