amassed

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625] So if anyone were to open occasionally the stores that curiosity had amassed, and observe what a cargo there was of useless and idle and unlovely things, perhaps the sight of all this poor stuff would inspire him with disgust.

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  1. transitive verb To gather for oneself, as for one's pleasure or profit: amassed a fortune. See Synonyms at gather.
  2. transitive verb To accumulate or assemble a large quantity of: "The astronomers had amassed compelling evidence that the galaxies indeed were speeding away from the earth and from each other” (George Johnson).
  3. intransitive verb To come together; collect.

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  • After his material had been thus painfully and toilfully amassed, the writing of his own story was always done at home, and his mind, having digested the necessary matter, always poured itself forth in writing so copiously that his revision was chiefly devoted to reducing the over-abundance. —  The Memoir of John Lothrop Motley
  • I thought of the missing chips and wondered how big a VR library Dylan had amassed, and how many people might have tried out the headset. —  AnalogSFF,June2006
  • Now I have a bit of a deficit to deal with - each waking moment is currently spent processing the information I've amassed, at the expense of the experiences and interactions I could be having. —  Dave Duarte
  • Your overall level is a measure of the overall experience that you've amassed, and defines your maximum talent and spell values (there's a calculation governing this, of course). —  VideoGamer.com - All Updates
  • New York Times was followed by another tidy piece of information: "The officials also declared for the first time that the amount of uranium that Tehran had now amassed -- more than a ton -- was sufficient, with added purification, to make an atom bomb." —  Aish Weekly Articles
 

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