amass
UK/əˈmæs/
amass verb: to collect into a mass or heap.
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
- To collect into a mass or heap.
- Synonyms:
- heap up
- to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
- to amass a treasure or a fortune
- to amass words or phrases
- Synonyms:
- accumulate
- To accumulate; to assemble.
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
- A large number of things collected or piled together.
- [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.1624, Henry Wotton, “The Seate, and the Worke”, in The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC, I. part, page 38
- […] others are drawn, not as portraits, not strict copies of these most essential characteristic parts, but filled up afterwards from memory, and a general idea of an amass of arms, without the specific one of a trophæal amass, which is the fact of these bas-relieves.1788, Thomas Pownall, Notices and Descriptions of Antiquities of the Provincia Romana of Gaul, London: John Nichols, page 22
- The act of amassing.
- He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and...1591, William Garrard, The Arte of Warre Book 6, London: Roger Warde, page 339
amass meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Malayalam
amass in Tamil
- குவி, திரட்டு, அள்ளு, பேரளவில் சேர், பெருந்திரளாக் குவி
amass in Marathi
- to collect into a mass or heap
- साठवणे sāṭhavṇe
amass in Urdu
- فراہم کرنا, اکٹھا کرنا, جمع کرنا
amass in Malayalam
- ഒന്നിച്ചു കൂട്ടുക, കൂമ്പാരമാക്കുക, സംഭരിക്കുക, ശേഖരിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- amass in Kannada
- ಉಗ್ರಾಣಿಸು, ಕಲೆಹಾಕು, ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸು, ಸೇರಿಸು
- amass in Arabic
- جَمَعَ jamaʕa, حَشَّدَ ḥaššada, رَكَّمَ rakkama
- amass in Malay
- mengumpulkan
Examples of amass in a sentence
- We have now amassed a body of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- He's amassed a small fortune working in the Middle East.
- Bob had amassed a considerable stockpile of double entendres from his days working as a barker for a strip joint.
Synonyms of amass
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Antonyms
Forms of amass
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | amasses |
| present participle | amassing |
| past participle | amassed |
| past | amassed |
| Noun | |
| plural | amasses |
Origin of amass
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
Words formed from amass
Words that rhyme with amass
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- Corinthian brass
- cuirass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- asse
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dass
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
Questions about amass
- What does amass mean?
- Amass means to collect into a mass or heap.
- What is amass in Tamil?
- Amass in Tamil is குவி, திரட்டு, அள்ளு. See Amass meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is amass?
- Amass can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce amass?
- Amass is pronounced /əˈmæs/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of amass?
- The past tense of amass is amassed.
Words near amass in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: amass (page history and authors); amass (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amass (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amass (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); amass (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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