massed 1 of 2

adjective

Definition of massednext
as in pressed

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massed

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verb

past tense of mass
as in accumulated
to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for massed
  1. accumulated
  2. gathered
  3. overcrowded
  4. serried
  5. wall-to-wall
  6. dense
Verb
  • The killings, prosecutors said, stemmed from a drug debt Escobedo accumulated from a cocaine trafficking operation.
    Darlene Superville, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Through 11 games, Brown has accumulated 56 catches for 946 yards and five touchdowns.
    Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of accumulated
Verb
  • What to Know The Russian military reportedly gathered 300 boats earlier this month to cross the Dnieper River to gain control of some of the islands in the Dnipro delta, according to the Kyiv Independent.
    Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The women gathered in Stange’s vehicle and drove away in separate cars, authorities said.
    Violet Ikonomova, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of gathered
Adjective
  • Migrants coming to Massachusetts were forced to spend the night at Logan Airport this past winter because of overcrowded shelters.
    Mike Deehan, Axios, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Meanwhile in 2013, twenty-four people died at an overcrowded church gathering in the southeastern state of Anambra.
    Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of overcrowded
Adjective
  • In lieu of the usual venue of the Dolby Theatre, where nominees and their guests sit elbow to elbow in serried ranks, this year’s edition was held in Los Angeles’s cavernous Union Station.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2021
  • The Emergency Operations Center is a large, bright room, with serried rows of wooden desks facing a wall of video screens.
    Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
Definition of serried
Adjective
  • Empty as a ghost town in winter but overwhelmed with wall-to-wall tourists in summer, its infrastructure creaks under pressure.
    Alex Ledsom, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The 3,000-square-foot home was built in 1926 and featured four bedrooms and four bathrooms, plus glamorous amenities including multiple poolside cabanas, a bedroom with wall-to-wall mirrors, and a movie theater.
    Claudia Williams, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of wall-to-wall
Adjective
  • As for roads, dense fog, winter storms and flash floods were snarling traffic across the U.S. In the Pacific Northwest, an atmospheric river was bringing heavy snow and rain to California, Oregon and Washington.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Limelight then follows standard steelmaking techniques to create a slag of impurities at the top of the brew, allowing dense pure iron to flow out through a channel below.
    Andrew Rosenblum, Popular Science, 26 Dec. 2024
Definition of dense
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