Word Meanings - AMASS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with.
Additional info about word: AMASS
To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope. Syn. -- To accumulate; heap up; pile.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMASS)
- Accumulate
- Collect
- gamer
- grow
- mass
- heap
- store
- bring together
- hoard
- gather
- agglomerate
- husband
- augment
- amass
- increase
- Assemble
- Gather
- collect
- congregate
- muster
- call together
- convoke
- convene
- Collate
- glean
- sum
- infer
- learn
- assemble
- garner
- accumulate
- Hoard
- Treasure
- store up
- heap up
- lay up
- Pile
- Heap
- stuck
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AMASS)
Related words: (words related to AMASS)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - STORER
One who lays up or forms a store. - COLLECTEDLY
Composedly; coolly. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - DECOLLATED
Decapitated; worn or cast off in the process of growth, as the apex of certain univalve shells. - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin.