amass
amassed; amassing; amasses
Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!"
Although the word amass should not be confused with "a mass," as in the thing you never want to hear has been found on your lung, they both derive from the Latin massa "lump." When you think about it, this makes sense. Whether soldiers or cancer cells, things that come together to form a whole — in this case, a tumor or an army — are amassed.
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collect or gather
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synonyms:
accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up
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get or gather together“She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis”
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run up
pile up (debts or scores)
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corral
collect or gather
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collect, pull in
get or bring together
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come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch
gather (money or other resources) together over time
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chunk, lump
put together indiscriminately
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bale
make into a bale
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catch
take in and retain
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fund
accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability
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fund
place or store up in a fund for accumulation
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archive, file away
put into an archive
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nickel-and-dime
accumulate gradually
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beat up, drum up, rally
gather
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type of:
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hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store
keep or lay aside for future use
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