amassed; amassing; amasses
1
: to collect for oneself : accumulate
amass a great fortune
2
: to collect into a mass : gather
must select rather than simply amass details
: to come together : assemble
Dark clouds amassed over the city.
amasser
noun
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
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Elijah Flowers, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Oct. 2025
Around that time, a front-page story in The New York Times detailed how Dundon and others had amassed wealth by packaging risky auto loans made to low-income people and selling those loans as securities for hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Tony Schick, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2025
No one before or since has amassed such a catalog of quirky child behaviors that researchers even today can replicate within individual children.
—Celeste Kidd, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
His three adult children have amassed huge social media followings, just like their patriarch.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Amass.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amass. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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