different between amassed vs amasser

English

Verb

amassed

1. simple past tense and past participle of amass

Adjective

amassed (not comparable)

1. Having been gathered or assembled in a large group.

Anagrams

• Adamses, damassé

English

Etymology

amass +? -er.

Noun

amasser (plural amassers)

1. One who amasses.
   • 1677, John Webster, The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft, London, Chapter 4, p. 59,^[1]

     [He] was a man of prodigious pride and vain-glory, which led him […] into no small errours, being a great Amasser of strange and incredible stories, led to relate them by his meer ambition of hunting after fame and the reputation of an universal Scholar.

   • 1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 11, “On Thought and Action,” p. 260,^[2]

     The amassers of fortunes seem divided into two opposite classes, lean, penurious-looking mortals, or jolly fellows who are determined to get possession of, because they want to enjoy the good things of the world.

   • 1941, Cole Porter, “Pets,” lyrics written for the Broadway musical Let’s Face It! cited in Robert Kimball (ed.), The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, New York: Da Capo, 1992, p. 309,^[3]

     Some folks collect paintings,

     Some folks collect stamps,

     Some are amassers

     Of antimacassars

     And other Victorian camps.

   • 1944, George Weller, Bases Overseas, excerpt published in Anthony Weller (ed.), Weller’s War, New York: Crown, 2009, p. 488,^[4]

     The first act of the Japanese army on arriving at a new island is to go fishing and start a garden. The first act of the Americans is to buy something from the natives. The American is an amasser.

   • 2014, Judith Donath, The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, Chapter 11, p. 280,^[5]

     Marketers […] are among the most voracious amassers of information about what people do and say online.

Synonyms

• accumulator
• collector

Translations

Anagrams

• samares

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.m?.se/
• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: amassai, amassé, amassée, amassées, amassés, amassez

Verb

amasser

1. to amass; to gather up

Conjugation

Derived terms

• pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse

Related terms

• ramasser

Further reading

• “amasser” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• armasse
• massera
• ramasse, ramassé
• rasâmes

Old French

Verb

amasser

1. to collect up; to get together

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-sss, *-sst are modified to s, s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Synonyms

• asambler

Descendants

• French: amasser