What is "accumulate" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does accumulate mean in English? Meaning of accumulate definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "accumulate" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "accumulate": get or gather together

Verb

  • Meaning: get or gather together
  • Example: 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: accumulate amass collect compile hoard pile up roll up
  • Hyponyms: bale catch chunk collect come up corral fund lump pull in run up scrape scrape up scratch
  • Hypernyms: hive away lay in put in salt away stack away stash away store
  • Pronunciation in US: /ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/

    Meaning of "accumulate": collect or gather

    Verb

  • Meaning: collect or gather
  • Example: Journals are accumulating in my office The work keeps piling up
  • Synonyms: accumulate amass conglomerate cumulate gather pile up
  • Hyponyms: accrete backlog drift
  • Hypernyms: increase
  • Pronunciation in US: /ə.ˈkjum.jə.ˌleɪt/

    Pronunciation in UK: /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/

  • Adjective: (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass. He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.(intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Oliver GoldsmithIll fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Oliver Goldsmith
  • Synonyms:

    compile, acquire, swell, rack up, assemble, add to, accrue, increase, collect, concentrate, gain, hoard, grow, expand, incorporate, cache, profit, gather, procure, unite, agglomerate, amalgamate, stockpile, pile, lump, heap, aggregate, mass, cumulate, store, collocate, round up, pile up, bring together, clean up, draw together, heap together, load up, make a bundle, make a killing, roll up, scare up, stack up, store up,

    Antonyms:

    disperse, scatter, forfeit, decrease, lessen, dwindle, squander, separate, lose, contract, shrink, divide, diminish, spend, waste, dissipate,

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