| 单词 | amass |
| 释义 | amass (once / 1900 pages) v Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!" Although the word amass should not be confused with "a mass," as in the thing you never want to hear has been found on your lung, they both derive from the Latin massa "lump." When you think about it, this makes sense. Whether soldiers or cancer cells, things that come together to form a whole — in this case, a tumor or an army — are amassed. WORD FAMILYamass: amassed, amasses, amassing USAGE EXAMPLESThe offense was an unrecognizable mess against the Giants, amassing just 284 yards and failing to account for New York’s aggressive pass rush. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) On game day, St. Thomas amassed a thirty-five-point lead before halftime. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) It claimed that Mr. Obiang amassed more than $300 million in assets around the globe “through corruption and money laundering.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v collect or gather Syn|Hypo|Hyper accumulate, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up backlog accumulate and create a backlog accretegrow or become attached by accretion driftbe piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current increase become bigger or greater in amount 2v get or gather together She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis Syn|Hypo|Hyper accumulate, collect, compile, hoard, pile up, roll up run up pile up (debts or scores) corralcollect or gather collect, pull inget or bring together come up, scrape, scrape up, scratchgather (money or other resources) together over time chunk, lumpput together indiscriminately balemake into a bale catchtake in and retain fundaccumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability fundplace or store up in a fund for accumulation archive, file awayput into an archive nickel-and-dimeaccumulate gradually beat up, drum up, rallygather hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away, store keep or lay aside for future use |
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