amass means A large number of things collected or piled together. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 68 out of 100.
amass is pronounced /əˈmæs/.
Etymology
From Middle English *amassen (found only as Middle English massen (“to amass”)), from Anglo-Norman amasser, from Medieval Latin amassāre, from ad + massa (“lump, mass”). See mass.
noun
- A large number of things collected or piled together.“[T]his Pillar [the "Compounded Order"] is nothing in effect, but a Medlie, or an Amaſſe of all the precedent Ornaments, making a nevv kinde, by ſtealth, and though the moſt richly tricked, yet the pooreſt in this, that he is a borrovver of all his Beautie.”
- The act of amassing.“He [the general] must neuer permit the Captaines to depart from the place, where he made the Amasse and collection of the Companies, with their bands out of order or disseuered, although they should depart to some place neere adioyning, vnlesse he were forced by some occasion of great necessity and importance:”
verb
- To collect into a mass or heap.
- to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.“to amass a treasure or a fortune”
- To accumulate; to assemble.