amass v
1. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather]
2. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, compile, hoard]

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. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. --Pope. Syn: To accumulate; heap up; pile.

Amass \A*mass"\, n. [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.] A mass; a heap. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.

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