An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
AMASS
accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
(verb) collect or gather; “Journals are accumulating in my office”; “The work keeps piling up”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
amass (third-person singular simple present amasses, present participle amassing, simple past and past participle amassed)
(transitive) To collect into a mass or heap.
(transitive) to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
Synonyms
• (collect into a mass): heap up, mound, pile, pile up, stack up; see also pile up
• (gather a great quantity of): accumulate, amound, collect, gather, hoard; see also amass
Noun
amass (plural amasses)
(obsolete) A large number of things collected or piled together.
Synonyms: mass, heap, pile
(obsolete) The act of amassing.
Anagrams
• Assam, Massa, Samas, massa, msasa
Source: Wiktionary
A*mass", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amassed; p. pr. & vb. n. Amassing.] Etym: [F. ambusher, LL. amassare; L. ad + massa lump, mass. See Mass.]
Definition: To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.
Syn.
– To accumulate; heap up; pile.
A*mass", n. Etym: [OF. amasse, fr. ambusher.]
Definition: A mass; a heap. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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