as much

Adverb

as much (not comparable)

1. Likewise, similarly, in a similar manner.

   I think she's overweight, but when I said as much to her, she got very upset.

2. (with as) Almost, very nearly.
   • 1921, Edwin Balmer, "Settled Down", in Everybody's Magazine, volume 44, number 2, February 1921, page 50 :

     It's too damn foolish; why he as much as said so himself.

3. (with as) An emphatic, emphasizing smallness.
   • 2005, Brigitte Goldstein, translator, Mr. Brecher's Fiasco, →ISBN, page 154 :

     For as soon as he as much as took out his pince-nez to read the newspaper, the privy councilor's wife was his advance trumpeter, who sounded the fanfare and said, "Now Papa puts on his eyes."

4. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see as,‎ much.

Anagrams

• Muchas, cushma, shumac, sumach