Accumulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather.
  • verb-intransitive. To mount up; increase.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
  • v. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • adj. Collected; accumulated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • adj. Collected; accumulated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To heap up; collect or bring together; make a pile, mass, or aggregation of: as, to accumulate earth or stones; to accumulate money or sorrows.
  • To form by heaping up or collecting the parts or elements of; obtain by gathering in; amass: as, to accumulate wealth.
  • To grow in size, number, or quantity; go on increasing by successive additions: as, public evils accumulate.
  • To take degrees by accumulation, as in some English universities. See accumulation.
  • Collected into a mass or quantity; increased; intensified.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. get or gather together
  • v. collect or gather
  • Antonym
    scatter   
    Verb Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aggregate    store    gather    hoard    heap together    pile up    amass    collect    collected    accumulated   
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