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amontoar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • amass verb To gather a large amount of something over time, often wealth, possessions, or information.
  • gather verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  • heap noun A pile of things gathered or thrown together.
  • mound noun A raised pile or hill of earth, often built up rather than natural.

Senses

amontoar is used for these senses in English:

  • amass (transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
  • gather To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
  • gather (architecture) To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
  • heap (transitive) To pile in a heap.
  • heap (transitive) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring.
  • mound (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
  • pile up (transitive) To form a pile, stack, or heap.
  • pile up (idiomatic, intransitive) To collect or accumulate, as a backlog.

gather — full definition

  1. verb To bring separate things or people together in one place.
  2. verb To collect or accumulate something gradually.
  3. verb To conclude or infer something from information available.

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