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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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