Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A large number of things collected or piled together. · The act of amassing.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo collect into a mass or heap. · to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate. · To accumulate; to assemble.
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.
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