accumulate in English dictionary

  • accumulate

    Meanings and definitions of "accumulate"

    • (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
    • (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
    • (rare) Collected; accumulated.
    • adjective
      (poetic, rare)
      Collected; accumulated.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
    • verb
      (intransitive)
      To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
    • to pile up
    • to grow in number
    • To collect in one place, usually for a purpose.
    • (be) piled up
    • To get or gather together.
    • verb
      collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
    • verb
      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"

    Synonyms of "accumulate" in English dictionary

    stack away, roll up, gather are the top synonyms of "accumulate" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of accumulate

    • accumulate ( not comparable)
    • accumulate ( third-person singular simple present accumulates, present participle accumulating, simple past and past participle accumulated)
    • accumulate (not comparable)
    • accumulate (third-person singular simple present accumulates, present participle accumulating, simple past and past participle accumulated)
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