get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it. How had he amassed his fortune? = accumulate, accrue. if you amass money, knowledge, information etc, you gradually collect a large amount of it (amasser, from masser )
amassment
Hyphenation
a·mass·ment
Pronunciation
Etymology
[ &-'mas ] (verb.) 15th century. Middle French amasser, from Old French, from a- + masser to gather into a mass, from masse mass.