Accumulate

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  • intransitive verb. To gather or cause to increase; amass.
  • intransitive verb. To be the site for (a gradually increasing mass), especially as a result of disuse or neglect.
  • intransitive verb. To mount or pile up; increase: synonym: gather.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Collected into a mass or quantity; increased; intensified.
  • To heap up; collect or bring together; make a pile, mass, or aggregation of: as, to accumulate earth or stones; to accumulate money or sorrows.
  • To form by heaping up or collecting the parts or elements of; obtain by gathering in; amass: as, to accumulate wealth.
  • To grow in size, number, or quantity; go on increasing by successive additions: as, public evils accumulate.
  • To take degrees by accumulation, as in some English universities. See accumulation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • transitive verb. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • adjective. Collected; accumulated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • verb. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • adjective. Collected; accumulated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. get or gather together
  • verb. collect or gather
  • Word Usage
    "The main thing I have realized, as the names accumulate, is the shockingly young age of some writers."
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