Definition of "amounted" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of amount. (verb)

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• "Sam stood in the doorway; his expression amounted to one big disapproving frown."
• "Palin's careless use of the term amounted to trivializing the historical tragedy of the"
• "He complained after a reporter described him in an article as a "double espresso of a politician," suggesting that the term amounted to an anti-Italian slur."