Vocabulary
Amass
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
gather together or accumulate (a large amount or number of material or things) over a period of time.
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- It appears revolutions emanate from a prolonged struggle creating a responsible leadership, while liberal democracies in the Global South have been comprehensively captured by corrupt elites whose focus is just to amass wealth.
- Despite losing backing from these institutions in 2024, the TLP managed to amass even more votes, reaching 2.89 million, compared to the 2.2m votes it garnered in 2018.
- The advent of the British East India Company or the Dutch East India Company saw the deployment of `trade` interests that sought to amass raw material that the future colonisers set about gathering up.
Synonyms
gather, collect, assemble, accumulate, stockpile, pile up
Curator example
“he amassed a fortune estimated at close to a million pounds”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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