massive

massive
adj.
Massive is used with these nouns: ↑accumulation, ↑amount, ↑archive, ↑army, ↑assault, ↑bang, ↑barrage, ↑bill, ↑blast, ↑blaze, ↑bleeding, ↑block, ↑bloodshed, ↑bomb, ↑bombardment, ↑bombing, ↑build-up, ↑building, ↑bulk, ↑bureaucracy, ↑campaign, ↑change, ↑chest, ↑collection, ↑conspiracy, ↑construction, ↑corruption, ↑cover-up, ↑coverage, ↑crackdown, ↑crowd, ↑cut, ↑damage, ↑debt, ↑decline, ↑deficit, ↑demonstration, ↑desk, ↑destruction, ↑disaster, ↑discount, ↑disruption, ↑door, ↑dose, ↑drop, ↑earthquake, ↑effort, ↑ego, ↑electric shock, ↑eruption, ↑estate, ↑evacuation, ↑exercise, ↑expansion, ↑expenditure, ↑explosion, ↑exposure, ↑extension, ↑fall, ↑fine, ↑fireplace, ↑fist, ↑flow, ↑fraud, ↑galaxy, ↑gamble, ↑haemorrhage, ↑heart attack, ↑hit, ↑hole, ↑hunt, ↑imbalance, ↑immigration, ↑impact, ↑implication, ↑improvement, ↑incentive, ↑increase, ↑inflation, ↑influx, ↑injection, ↑investment, ↑jaw, ↑landslide, ↑loan, ↑loss, ↑majority, ↑merger, ↑mountain, ↑offensive, ↑operation, ↑outcry, ↑outlay, ↑output, ↑overdose, ↑overhaul, ↑pile, ↑pile-up, ↑pillar, ↑popularity, ↑profit, ↑programme, ↑project, ↑proportion, ↑protest, ↑quantity, ↑rally, ↑redistribution, ↑reduction, ↑redundancy, ↑reorganization, ↑repression, ↑resistance, ↑retaliation, ↑rise, ↑sale, ↑scale, ↑search, ↑shake-up, ↑shape, ↑shift, ↑shipment, ↑shock, ↑size, ↑spree, ↑star, ↑step, ↑strike, ↑stroke, ↑subsidy, ↑success, ↑suffering, ↑sum, ↑support, ↑surge, ↑task, ↑tower, ↑traffic jam, ↑transfer, ↑tree, ↑trunk, ↑turnout, ↑understatement, ↑undertaking, ↑unemployment, ↑upheaval, ↑uprising, ↑upsurge, ↑violation, ↑void, ↑volume, ↑vote, ↑wall, ↑wave

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