amass

verb

ə-ˈmas 

amassed; amassing; amasses

transitive verb

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.

amasser noun

amassment

ə-ˈmas-mənt 

noun

Synonyms

• accumulate
• assemble
• bulk (up)
• collect
• concentrate
• congregate
• constellate
• corral
• garner
• gather
• group
• lump
• pick up
• round up

Examples of amass in a Sentence

They've amassed a wealth of information.

amassed a truckload of donations in the course of their canned food drive

Recent Examples on the Web

Overall, that has helped the couple amass around $585,000 in assets, including their home and nearly $468,000 in retirement savings and other investments. —Kamaron McNair, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2024

The song first surfaced across platforms in April, with one TikTok video amassing 7 million views. —Erielle Delzer, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2024

But writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s latest thriller has resonated impressively with streaming audiences, ranking as the No. 1 movie on the platform during its first two weeks in release and amassing nearly 70 million views as of Sept. 15, according to the Los Gatos, Calif., company. —Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2024

Videos about Pesto on the app easily amass millions of views and thousands of adoring comments. —Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Anglo-French amasser, from a- (from Latin ad-) + masser to gather into a mass, from masse mass

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1

Kids Definition

amass

verb

ə-ˈmas 

: to collect into a mass : accumulate

amasser noun