accumulate
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English accumylaten, from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō ("amass, pile up"), formed from ad ("to, towards, at") + cumulō ("heap"), from cumulus ("a heap").
Pronunciation Verbaccumulate (accumulates, present participle accumulating; simple past and past participle accumulated)
- (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
- Synonyms: amass, heap, hoard, store, Thesaurus:pile up
- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
- (intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
- Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather, Thesaurus:accumulate
- With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
- (education, dated) To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
- French: accumuler
- German: aufstauen
- Portuguese: acumular
- Russian: нака́пливать
- Spanish: acumular, amontonar
- French: accumuler
- German: sich vermehren
- Italian: accumularsi
- Portuguese: acumular
- Russian: нака́пливаться
- Spanish: acumularse
accumulate (not comparable)
- (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
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