Amass
WordNet
verb
(1) Collect or gather
"Journals are accumulating in my office"
"The work keeps piling up"
(2) 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"
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Etymology
, , + . See Mass.
Verb
- 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.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, p.123,
- ...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.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part II, Chapter V, p.123,