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English verb: amass | |||
| 1. | amass (change) collect or gather | ||
| Samples | Journals are accumulating in my office. The work keeps piling up. | ||
| Examples | The crowds amass in the streets | ||
| Synonyms | accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up | ||
| Pattern of use | Something ----s. Something is ----ing PP | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | increase | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | accrete, backlog, drift | ||
| 2. | amass (possession) get or gather together | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Examples | They amass the money in the closet | ||
| Synonyms | accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bale, catch, chunk, collect, come up, corral, fund, fund, lump, pull in, run up, scrape, scrape up, scratch | ||
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