accumulate
/əˈkju.mjəˌleɪt/ verb B2- To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent. · He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
- To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number. · With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
- To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
He/she/it accumulates · Past accumulated · Past participle accumulated · -ing form accumulating
Verb forms
- Base form
- accumulate
- He/she/it
- accumulates
- Past
- accumulated
- Past participle
- accumulated
- -ing form
- accumulating
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“It has been in the family a very long while,” returned Monte Cristo, “a sort of treasure expressly forbidden to be touched for a certain period of years, during which the accumulated interest has doubled the capital.
At the end of each ten weeks with the extra capital thus accumulated, he purchased one gentleman’s evening from the bargain counter of stingy old Father Time.
As to the gang, it will be within the memory of the public how completely the evidence which Holmes had accumulated exposed their organization, and how heavily the hand of the dead man weighed upon them.
“I forgot to mention to you,” said the count, “that I lay yearly aside a certain sum for each servant in my establishment; those whom I am compelled to dismiss lose (as a matter of course) all participation in this money, while their portion goes to the fund accumulating for those domestics who remain with me, and among whom it will be divided at my death.
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