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.