English > amass: 2 senses > verb 2, possession| Meaning | Get or gather together. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
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| Model | They amass the money in the closet |
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| Example | "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis" |
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| Synonyms | roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, compile, hoard |
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| Narrower | bale | make into a bale |
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| catch | take in and retain |
| collect, pull in | Get or bring together |
| corral | Collect or gather |
| fund | place or store up in a fund for accumulation |
| fund | accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability |
| lump, chunk | Put together indiscriminately |
| run up | pile up (debts or scores) |
| scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up | Gather (money or other resources) together over time |
| Broader | store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away | Keep or lay aside for future use |
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| Spanish | acumular, amasar, amontonar, apilar, coleccionar, compilar, juntar, recoger, recopilar, reunir |
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| Catalan | acumular, ajuntar, amuntegar, apilar, aplegar, arreplegar, col·leccionar, compilar, recollir, recopilar, reunir |
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