verb
- Develop into.
- usage: "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans"
- Determine the sum of.
- usage: "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
- Add up in number or quantity.
- usage: "The bills amounted to $2, 000"; "The bill came to $2, 000"
- Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible.
- synonyms: make sense
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