amounting

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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