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1. (v.t.) accumulate
to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up; amass:
to accumulate wealth.
2. (v.i.) accumulate
to gather into a heap or mass.
Etymology: (1520–30; < L accumulātus, ptp. of accumulāre=ac-ac - +cumulāre to heap, pile)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
get or gather together
"I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
2. (verb) accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
collect or gather
"Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
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1. (verb) accumulate
to gradually increase
oil-rich countries that are accumulating wealth; chemicals that accumulate in the river water
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) accumulate
collected; accumulated
2. (verb) accumulate
to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money
3. (verb) accumulate
to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly
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Sense: (usually of things) to gather or be gathered together in a large quantity
Rubbish accumulates very quickly in our house.
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 Afrikaans: versamel |
 Arabic: يُكَدِّس، يُكَوِّم |
 Bulgarian: натрупвам |
 Brazilian: acumular |
 Czech: (na)hromadit (se) |
 German: sich anhäufen |
 Danish: samle; hobe sig op |
 Greek: συσσωρεύω, συσσωρεύομαι |
 Spanish: acumularse |
 Estonian: koguma, kuhjuma |
 Farsi: انباشته شدن |
 Finnish: kertyä |
 French: (s')accumuler |
 Hebrew: לִצבּוֹר |
 Hindi: संचय करना |
 Croatian: nakupiti se |
 Hungarian: felhalmoz(ódik) |
 Indonesian: terkumpul |
 Icelandic: safnast saman |
 Italian: accumulare, accumularsi |
 Japanese: たまる |
 Korean: 쌓이다 |
 Lithuanian: kaupti(s) |
 Latvian: uzkrāt(ies) |
 Malay: berlonggok |
 Dutch: (zich) ophopen |
 Norwegian: samle, hope seg opp |
 Polish: zbierać (się), gromadzić |
 Persian: انباشته شدن |
 Pashto: تولول |
 Portuguese: acumular |
 Romanian: a (se) acumula; a se strâ |
 Russian: накапливать(ся) |
 Slovak: hromadiť (sa) |
 Slovenian: kopičiti se |
 Serbian: nakupiti |
 Swedish: hopa [sig], ackumulera[s] |
 Thai: สะสม |
 Turkish: birikmek, yığılmak |
 Taiwanese: 累積 |
 Ukrainian: нагромаджувати(ся); акуму |
 Urdu: جمع ہونا ، جمع کرنا |
 Vietnamese: thu gom |
 Chinese: 积累，堆积 |
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