AMASS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amass mean? 

• AMASS (verb)
  The verb AMASS has 2 senses:

1. collect or gather

2. get or gather together

  Familiarity information: AMASS used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMASS (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they amass    ... he / she / it amasses   
Past simple: amassed   
Past participle: amassed   
-ing form: amassing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up

Context example:

The work keeps piling up

Hypernyms (to "amass" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amass"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The crowds amass in the streets

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Hypernyms (to "amass" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amass"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They amass the money in the closet

 Context examples 

By watching these stellar dancers, NASA's Kepler space telescope during its K2 mission has helped amass the most complete catalog of rotation periods for stars in a cluster.

(Kepler Watches Stellar Dancers in the Pleiades Cluster, NASA)

Some years ago he loved a young Russian lady of moderate fortune, and having amassed a considerable sum in prize-money, the father of the girl consented to the match.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Longo and his research team have amassed evidence indicating several health benefits of the fasting-mimicking diet.

(Fasting-Mimicking Diet May Reverse Diabetes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The team has amassed more than 16,000 candidates, including phosphine.

(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It might happen that, should he amass riches by some happy fortune of war, this feud might hold the two families aloof.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If you are going through a divorce, you and your soon-to-be-ex may be meeting with your lawyer or in arbitration or court over how to fairly divide property amassed during the marriage (or if you are ending a business, sharing profits with your ex-partner).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

How many it had cost in the amassing, what blood and sorrow, what good ships scuttled on the deep, what brave men walking the plank blindfold, what shot of cannon, what shame and lies and cruelty, perhaps no man alive could tell.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)