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   amassment

   /əˈmasm(ə)nt/

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   • 1. the accumulation of wealth or other resources: "capitalism encourages the amassment of money"
   • ▪ a mass or quantity of something that has gradually gathered or been acquired: "the sheer amassment of evidence seems convincing"

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   What does amassment mean?

   • Define amassment. amassment synonyms, amassment pronunciation, amassment translation, English dictionary definition of amassment. v. a·massed , a·mass·ing , a·mass·es v. tr. 1. To gather together or accumulate a large quantity of : amass evidence; amass a fortune.

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   What does amass mean?

   • 1. To gather together or accumulate a large quantity of (something): amass evidence; amass a fortune. 2. To be the site of (an increasing mass), especially as a result of neglect: How long has the desk been amassing bills? To come together; collect: troops amassing on the border. See Synonyms at gather.

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   What does amazement mean?

   • amazement (n.) 1590s, "mental stupefaction, state of being astonished," from amaze + -ment. The meaning "overwhelming wonder" is attested from c. 1600. adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable. amaze (v.)

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   What does amassement mean?

   • Edward Phillips, compiler (1658) “Amassement”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook […], →OCLC, column 1: “Amaſſement, (French) a crouding, or heaping of ſeveral things together.”.

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   Amassment is the act of amassing, which means to gather or accumulate a large quantity of something. Find the pronunciation, translation, and related words for amassment in this online dictionary.

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   Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass +‎ -ment.

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   amassment (countable and uncountable, plural amassments) 1. The act of amassing. 1.1. All her energy was devoted to the amassmentof a vast fortune. 1.1. 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13, 1.1.1. [...] no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were req...

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   Edward Phillips, compiler (1658) “Amassement”, in The New World of English Words: Or, A General Dictionary:[…], London: […] E. Tyler, for Nath[aniel] Brook[…], →OCLC, column 1: “Amaſſement, (French...

   Elisha Coles, An English Dictionary, London: Peter Parker, 1677: “Amassement,[...] heaping up.”

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   AMASS definition: 1. to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a…. Learn more.

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   1. : to collect for oneself : accumulate. amass a great fortune. 2. : to collect into a mass : gather. must select rather than simply amass details. intransitive verb. : to come together : assemble. Dark clouds amassed over the city.

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   Amass definition: to gather for oneself; collect as one's own. See examples of AMASS used in a sentence.

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   to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period: She has amassed a huge fortune from her novels. Some of his colleagues envy the enormous wealth that he has amassed. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Collecting and amassing. accumulate. agglomerate. aggregation. assemble. bunch.