amassing
Building a stockpile
Amassing is gathering or accumulating in large quantities over time.
The word emphasizes both the gradual process and the impressive scale of what's collected: amassing wealth, amassing evidence, amassing an army.
What gets amassed is usually valuable or powerful—fortunes, followers, data, weapons.
She spent decades amassing one of the finest private art collections in the country.
Gathering in increasing quantity
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- compilingGathering into unified whole
- assemblingFitting parts together
- stockpilingAccumulating supplies in quantity
aggregating · hoarding · curating · harvesting · piling · sourcing · cataloging · storing
Gathering in increasing quantity
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- assetsOwned items of value
- capitalWealth used for investment
treasure · funds · savings · portfolio · estate · prosperity · affluence · inheritance
Accumulating supplies in quantity
- stashingConcealing for safekeeping
- squirrelingHiding away gradually
- accumulationCollected mass over time
- cacheConcealed storage spot
surplus · excess · glut · overabundance · laying away · putting aside · saving up · reserving
Collected mass over time
- expansionIncrease in scope
- increaseGrowth in amount
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
surge · buildup · swelling · multiplication · augmentation · snowballing · mounting · rising
accumulating
Gathering in increasing quantity
- gatheringCollection of people meeting
- compilingGathering into unified whole
- assemblingFitting parts together
stockpiling · aggregating · hoarding · curating · harvesting · piling · sourcing · cataloging · storing · archiving
accumulating
Gathering in increasing quantity
capital · treasure · funds · savings · portfolio · estate · prosperity · affluence · inheritance · endowment
stockpiling
Accumulating supplies in quantity
- stashingConcealing for safekeeping
- squirrelingHiding away gradually
- accumulationCollected mass over time
cache · surplus · excess · glut · overabundance · laying away · putting aside · saving up · reserving · keeping
accumulation
Collected mass over time
- expansionIncrease in scope
- increaseGrowth in amount
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
escalation · surge · buildup · swelling · multiplication · augmentation · snowballing · mounting · rising · ballooning
- accumulationaccumulation, heap, pile, stack, hoard
- acquiringobtaining, getting, grabbing, seizing, taking
- gatheringgathering, collecting, accumulating, compiling, hoarding
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- buildupbuildup, accumulation, accretion, pileup, pile
- hoardinghoarding, clutter, accumulating, collecting, stockpiling
amassingdispersing
Spreading widely apart
scattering · dissipating · disbursing · distributing · spreading
amassingdepleting
Progressively using up
squandering · expending · spending · consuming · exhausting
mass, massive, amass, massing, amassed, massively, massiveness, amasses