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
From the library
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.
The Fox accumulated all that they had killed into one large heap and left to himself the smallest possible morsel.
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.
Holmes balanced it on his knee and his eyes moved slowly and lovingly over the record of old cases, mixed with the accumulated information of a lifetime.
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