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Definition of amassed : of Amass

Synonyms:

concentrated, assembled, massed, congregate

garnered, scored, assumed, landed, incurred, received, fetched, bought, purchased, accumulated, palmed, lured, obtained, added, wrangled, secured, pocketed, won, netted, cornered, claimed, retrieved, heaped

got, deprived, took, monopolized

confiscated, usurped, impounded, gotten, procured, captured, abducted, grabbed, caught, acquired, harvested, appropriated, collected, annexed, nabbed, reaped, taken, bagged, levied, gathered, commandeered

Usage examples:

• We can hardly doubt that he made free use of the material amassed by Pliny in his Bella Germaniae, and it is quite possible that he really used few other sources. - "Latin Literature", J. W. Mackail.
• By degrees he had likewise amassed a fortune of two or three hundred thousand crowns " in good dry gold;" but the only use he made of it was to buy presents for his fellow- savages, who, upon their return from the hunt, repaid him with usury in beaver- skins and peltries. - "Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast", Samuel Adams Drake.
• He was a prominent member of the Beaver Club, the members of which were all fur- traders who had amassed considerable wealth in their calling. - "McGill and its Story, 1821-1921", Cyrus Macmillan.