accumulate
Academic Word List, sublist 8.
About 4.52 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
- verb To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
- verb To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
- adjective Collected; accumulated.
Similar words
amass pile up cumulate hoard collect compile gather conglomerate pull in accumulation
Often followed by
in and a the on at to wealth more
Word family
accumulated accumulates accumulating accumulation
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