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amounted

/əˈmaʊntɪd/

amounted is the simple past and past participle of amount.

Meaning of amount

Verb

amount (third-person singular simple present amounts, present participle amounting, simple past and past participle amounted)

  1. (intransitive, with-to) To total or evaluate.
    • The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
  2. (intransitive, with-to) To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of.
    • He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To go up; to ascend.
    • So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 54

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Questions about amounted

What is amounted the simple past and past participle of?
Amounted is the simple past and past participle of amount.
How do you pronounce amounted?
Amounted is pronounced /əˈmaʊntɪd/.

Words near amounted in the dictionary

  1. amoung
  2. amoungest
  3. amoungst
  4. amount
  5. amount of substance
  6. amounted
  7. amounteth
  8. amounting
  9. amounts
  10. amounts of substance
  11. amour

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