Synonyms of amassing

amassing

verb

present participle of amass

1

as in collecting

to bring together in one body or place

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• collecting
• assembling
• gathering
• accumulating
• garnering
• corralling
• grouping
• combining
• packing
• concentrating
• joining
• lumping
• congregating
• getting together
• piling
• constellating
• organizing
• rounding up
• bulking (up)
• mustering
• stacking
• uniting
• compiling
• arranging
• raising
• picking up
• rallying
• merging
• connecting
• swarming
• heaping
• linking
• balling
• huddling
• clustering
• collating
• pooling
• flocking
• bunching
• thronging
• herding
• batching
• systematizing
• banding
• hiving
• regrouping
• pressing
• archiving
• scraping (up or together)
• brigading
• re-collecting
• regathering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dispersing
• scattering
• dissipating
• separating
• sending
• dissolving
• disintegrating
• dispelling
• severing
• splitting (up)
• dismissing
• breaking up
• disbanding

2

as in accumulating

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass

over the last month a huge mound of paperwork has amassed on my desk

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accumulating
• collecting
• gathering
• concentrating
• massing
• accreting
• piling (up)
• stacking (up)
• conglomerating
• building up
• drifting
• lumping
• clumping
• agglutinating
• banking
• ridging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• scattering
• dispersing
• dissipating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of amassing

The Razorbacks' run game lifted them throughout, amassing 187 yards. — ABC News, 17 Oct. 2026

In 2019, two years before Guojun Xuan and Silvia Zhang began amassing a family of more than 20 surrogate children, Zhang was accused of misdemeanor child abuse after leaving her then-8-year-old daughter in a hot car for hours. — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026

Tower Paddle Boards quickly took off, amassing $10 million in cumulative sales by January 2015. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Oct. 2026

Jokic was dropping dimes and practically refusing to shoot throughout his 15 minutes, amassing seven assists to zero turnovers. — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026

To weaponize this advantage, the 30 clubs have withheld roughly $75 million each in central-fund distributions, amassing a $2 billion liquidity holdback. — Chris Koras, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

For everyone else, there is the real-world practicum of amassing knowledge and experience that hopefully amounts to more than a shouting match over beer. — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2026

Men like Lincoln, in selecting square plots on maps, weren’t joining communities so much as amassing commodities. — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2026

Irsay, who died last year, had spent decades amassing a collection that ranged from presidential documents and Jack Kerouac’s original typescript for On the Road to some of the most famous guitars in rock history. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026