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Definitions for: Amass
[v] collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
[v] get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for athe man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
Webster (1913) Definition: 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.
A*mass", n. [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.]
A mass; a heap. [Obs.] --Sir H. Wotton.
Synonyms: accumulate, accumulate, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, hoard, pile up, pile up
See Also: accrete, backlog, bale, catch, chunk, come up, corral, drift, fund, hive away, increase, lay in, lump, pull in, put in, run up, salt away, scrape, scrape up, stack away, stash away, store
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