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# amass

«amass» in Mova's school dictionary: **to gather a large number or amount of things, or money…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (amass, amasses, amassed, amassing)

### meaning for a pupil

To amass is to gather a large number or amount of things, or money, over time: «amass a fortune». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amass/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a character gathers wealth or treasure, such as the thief in the cave

### examples

- He amassed a fortune by trading in cloth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amass/#x1)
- I had amassed a rich treasure of jewels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amass/#x2)
- The squirrel amassed a huge pile of nuts for winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amass/#x3)

### note

amassing makes the total grow bigger as things are gathered together; it names no operation like add, so read the rest of the problem to see what is being counted

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «amass» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/amass/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.