amount
/əˈmaʊnt/ verb C1- To total or evaluate. · The money in my pocket amounts to three dollars and change.
- To be the tantamount to; to reach up to the level of. · He was a pretty good student, but never amounted to much professionally.· His response amounted to gross insubordination.
He/she/it amounts · Past amounted · Past participle amounted · -ing form amounting
Verb forms
- Base form
- amount
- He/she/it
- amounts
- Past
- amounted
- Past participle
- amounted
- -ing form
- amounting
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But now I have forgiven the world for the love of you; now that I see you, young and with a promising future,—now that I think of all that may result to you in the good fortune of such a disclosure, I shudder at any delay, and tremble lest I should not assure to one as worthy as yourself the possession of so vast an amount of hidden wealth.”
“this treasure, which may amount to two...
And Dantès, happy to escape the history and explanation which would be sure to confirm his belief in his friend’s mental instability, glided like a snake along the narrow passage; while Faria, restored by his alarm to a certain amount of activity, pushed the stone into place with his foot, and covered it with a mat in order the more effectually to avoid discovery.
At two o’clock he bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had written, and locked the door of the office after me.
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