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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amount \A*mount"\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Amounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amounting}.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See {Mount}, noun]
1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight. --Spenser.
2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.
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