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AMASS

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Example:

The work keeps piling up

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "amass" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amass"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The crowds amass in the streets

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "amass" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "amass"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They amass the money in the closet

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