From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
accumulate
v 1: get or gather together; "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" [syn: roll up, collect, pile up, amass,
compile, hoard]
2: collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office";
"The work keeps piling up" [syn: cumulate,
conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accumulate \Ac*cu"mu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accumulated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Accumulating.] [L. accumulatus, p. p. of
accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate.]
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring
together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
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Syn: To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate;
heap together; hoard.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accumulate \Ac*cu"mu*late\ ([a^]k*k[=u]"m[-u]*l[=a]t), v. i.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase
greatly.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. --Goldsmith.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Accumulate \Ac*cu"mu*late\ (-l[asl]t), a. [L. accumulatus, p. p.
of accumulare.]
Collected; accumulated. --Bacon.
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