amounted
uh-MOWN-tid/əˈmaʊntɪd/
- 1Simple past and past participle of amount.
The total damages amounted to several million dollars.
His efforts amounted to nothing in the end.
Note
One spelling serves both the past tense and the participle, and either way it reaches for to: the costs amounted to millions; his hopes had amounted to nothing. Because the verb takes no object, the participle appears only after have, never in a passive. Nothing "was amounted." In older writing the same form can carry the obsolete sense "went up, ascended," with no to following.
amounted is a form of amount
amount, verb: To add up to or come to a total when the parts are combined. Full entry
- Spelling
- amount → amounted: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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