0 past simple and past participle of amass
1 to get a large amount of something, especially money or information, by collecting it over a long period:
When the head of the family had amassed sufficient resources, he would buy back his child.
And as the forces amassed against him grew larger, his "rhetoric found an increasingly receptive audience" (p. 31).
Eight million female volunteers amassed supplies for soldiers and sailors, surgical dressings and garments for refugees.
When someone ' 'memorizes' ' information (as less aspiring test-bound students often do), then they have amassed knowledge.
Most of his large family of friends amassed somehow from his plays: performers, directors, affectionados like myself.
Their representatives dominated the town's political institutions and many had amassed considerable wealth.
As a result, new data was amassed, and many inferences were drawn from the landscape evidence.
Can one become an intellectual without trading on a capital amassed elsewhere, but simply by means of work done on the premises, as it were?
