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amass

ә'mæs6 senses · 7 ms
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verb/əˈmæs/
  1. 1

    To collect into a mass or heap.transitive

  2. 2

    to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.transitive

    • to amass a treasure or a fortune
    • to amass words or phrases
  3. 3

    To accumulate; to assemble.intransitive

syn. mound · pile · pile up · stack up · amound · collect · gather · hoard · amass · engross · get up · intreasure

ant. declutter · distribute · unhoard

noun/əˈmæs/
  1. 1

    A large number of things collected or piled together.obsolete

    • [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
    • […] 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
  2. 2

    The act of amassing.obsolete

    • 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, vnl

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