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US
/əˈmæs/
]
[ UK /ɐmˈæs/ ]
[ UK /ɐmˈæs/ ]
VERB
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collect or gather
The work keeps piling up
Journals are accumulating in my office -
get or gather together
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She rolled up a small fortune
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
How To Use amass In A Sentence
- Other historical mysteries re-examined at the Maryland conference include Alexander the Great, who amassed a sprawling empire by age 30, but died in 323 B.C. at age 32. Solving Darwin's Medical Mystery
- A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
- Wisconsin amassed 311 yards and a 17-0 lead in the first half, leaving little doubt that Alvarez would get to celebrate another big win. USATODAY.com
- He amassed similar collections of American advertising of the 1920s, plus grangerized Shakespeare, Burns, etc.
- Heathcliff, who, kinless and kithless, was in the end compelled to see the property he has so cruelly amassed descend to his hereditary enemies. Emily Brontë
- You always did wonder, how did they amass these fortunes? Times, Sunday Times
- So sought-after are high-ranking characters and the virtual trinkets that they amass that extraordinary amounts of real-world money are changing hands as they are traded.
- Torres who has reportedly amassed 53 career wins with 16 losses is said to be arriving for the clash next Saturday.
- The more money people amass, the more they pay attention to schools and education, a correlation drawn by countless studies.
- Marie amassed the most important collection of Napoleon memorabilia in the world.