how to pronounce amass

/əˈmæs/

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amass is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of amass in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… Percy in which he'd seem to amass a huge …”

meanings of amass

verb:

To gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
To collect into a mass or heap.

noun:

The act of amassing.
A large number of things collected or piled together.

amass frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word amass occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics amass can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that amass can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) communication, information, and media;