Word Meanings - AMASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: AMASS

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMASS)

• Accumulate
• Collect
• gamer
• grow
• mass
• heap
• store
• bring together
• hoard
• gather
• agglomerate
• husband
• augment
• amass
• increase
• Assemble
• Gather
• collect
• congregate
• muster
• call together
• convoke
• convene
• Collate
• glean
• sum
• infer
• learn
• assemble
• garner
• accumulate
• Hoard
• Treasure
• store up
• heap up
• lay up
• Pile
• Heap
• stuck

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMASS)

• Dismiss
• disperse
• relegate
• remit
• disband
• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

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  One who lays up or forms a store.
• BRAND IRON
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  Giving dismission.
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• OPPROBRIOUS
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