Meaning & use
Amounting
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Present participle of "amount"; adding up to or totaling a specified quantity, or coming to be equivalent to something in effect or significance.
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The damages were amounting to nearly a million dollars by the end of the trial.
His vague excuses were amounting to nothing more than avoidance.
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"Amounting to" is frequently used figuratively, as in "amounting to an admission of guilt," where it signals that something is effectively equivalent to a stronger claim.
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