Amass

Quick meaning: Amass is a verb meaning (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.

Meaning

(transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
2. (intransitive) To accumulate; to assemble.
3. (obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
4. (obsolete) The act of amassing.

Example Sentences

to amass words or phrases

to amass a treasure or a fortune

[…] he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.

[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.

Word Forms

• amasses
• amassing
• amassed

Synonyms for amass

Depending on context, synonyms include mound, pile, pile up, accumulate, amound, collect.

Antonyms for amass

Common opposites include declutter, distribute, unhoard.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include accumulate, cumulate, pile up, collect, hoard, compile.

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