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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Amass \A*mass"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amassed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Amassing}.] [F. ambusher, LL. amassare; L. ad + massa lump,
mass. See {Mass}.]
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity
of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to
amass words or phrases.
[1913 Webster]
The life of Homer has been written by amassing all the
traditions and hints the writers could meet with.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]
Syn: To accumulate; heap up; pile.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
amassed
adj : brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated
letters in my office" [syn: {accumulated}, {assembled},
{collected}, {congregate}, {massed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "amassed":
accumulated, agglomerate, aggregate, assembled, backlogged,
bunched, bundled, clumped, clustered, collected, combined,
conglomerate, congregate, congregated, cumulate, fascicled,
fasciculated, garnered, gathered, glomerate, heaped, hoarded,
in session, joined, joint, knotted, laid up, leagued, lumped,
massed, meeting, packaged, piled, stacked, stockpiled, stored,
treasured, wrapped up
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