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amass

/əˈmæs/ verbe C1

En français : amasser, s'amasser

  1. To collect into a mass or heap. (transitive)
  2. to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate. (transitive) · to amass a treasure or a fortune· to amass words or phrases
  3. To accumulate; to assemble. (intransitive)

He/she/it amasses · Prétérit amassed · Participe passé amassed · Forme en -ing amassing

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Dans la bibliothèque

The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 70 · B2
The authorities are excellent at amassing facts, though they do not always use them to advantage.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 72 · B2
His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish his professors.”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 4 · B2
As soon as his engagement with the patron of La Jeune Amélie ended, he would hire a small vessel on his own account—for in his several voyages he had amassed a hundred piastres—and under some pretext land at the Island of Monte Cristo.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 242 · C1

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