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Amass vs Dissipate - What's the difference?

amass | dissipate |

As verbs the difference between amass and dissipate

is that amass is to collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate while dissipate is to drive away, disperse.

As a noun amass

is (obsolete) a mass; a heap.

amass

English

Verb

(es)
  • To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
    • to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases
  • * 1887 , , A Study in Scarlet , Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
    • he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.

    Synonyms

    * accumulate, heap up, pile

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A mass; a heap.
  • * Thomas Pownall
    • a general idea of an amass of arms
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    dissipate

    English

    Verb

    (dissipat)
  • To drive away, disperse.
  • * Cook
    • I soon dissipated his fears.
  • * Hazlitt
    • The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy.
  • To use up or waste.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The vast wealth was in three years dissipated .
  • * 1931 :
    • So much for the effort and ingenuity of Montmartre. All the catering to vice and waste was on an utterly childish scale, and he suddenly realized the meaning of the word "dissipate'"—to ' dissipate into thin air; to make nothing out of something.
  • To vanish by dispersion.

    • Related terms

    * dissipation

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