amounted

[ uh-mount ]

verbequal, add up to

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Word Origin & History

late 13c., "to go up, rise, mount (a horse)," from Old French amonter, from a mont "upward," literally "to the mountain," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + montem (nominative mons) "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Meaning "to rise in number or quality (so as to reach)" is from c.1300. Related: Amounted; amounting.

Example Sentences foramounted

I had perquisites, too, which amounted to something handsome.

The loss of the Danes, including prisoners, amounted to about six thousand.

The total British loss in the battle of Trafalgar amounted to 1587.

The total loss of the English in killed, wounded, and drowned, amounted to 250.

The lines of railway at that time, 1834, amounted to seventy-eight miles.

In the fifth year of the settlement these salaries, reckoned in money, amounted to from £350 to £600.

He had a strange feeling, a feeling of apprehension which amounted to a certainty.

The thicket, before so formidable, amounted to nothing at all.

He was very delicate and afflicted with nervousness that amounted to insanity at times.

They were fifteen; it amounted therefore to seventy-five francs.