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   Ac·cu·mu·late

   /əˈkyo͞om(y)əˌlāt/

   

   verb

   • 1. gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of: "investigators have yet to accumulate enough evidence"
   • ▪ gradually gather or acquire (a resulting whole): "her goal was to accumulate a huge fortune"
   • ▪ gather; build up: "the toxin accumulated in their bodies"

   Word Origin late 15th century: from Latin accumulat- ‘heaped up’, from the verb accumulare, from ad- ‘to’ + cumulus ‘a heap’.

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   What does accumulated mean?

   • When you accumulate things or when they accumulate, they collect or are gathered over a period of time. [...] present simple: I accumulate, you accumulate [...] past simple: I accumulated, you accumulated [...] • build up, increase, grow, be stored [...]

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   What does acumular mean?

   • acumular… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! ACCUMULATE definition: to increase in amount over a period of time, or to make something increase over a period of time: . Learn more.

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   Where does the word accumulate come from?

   • The word accumulate is derived from the Latin ad meaning “to add” and cumulare meaning “pile up.” In the world of literature, accumulation is a stylistic literary device that uses a list of words with similar abstract or physical qualities or meanings in order to emphasize commonalities among the words.

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   • In the world of literature, accumulation is a stylistic literary device that uses a list of words with similar abstract or physical qualities or meanings in order to emphasize commonalities among the words. In general, accumulation is the piling up of meaning upon a single term or idea in order to explain as well as possible.

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   Debts began to accumulate. amass (rather formal) to collect something in large quantities, especially money, debts or information: He amassed a fortune from silver mining. Patterns. to collect/ gather/ accumulate/ amass data/ evidence/ information; to accumulate/ amass a fortune/ debts; dirt/ dust/ debris collects/ accumulates

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   ACCUMULATE definition: to increase in amount over a period of time, or to make something increase over a period of time: . Learn more.

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   accumulate (somewhat formal) to gradually get more and more of something over a period of time; to gradually increase in number or quantity over a period of time : ...

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   Define accumulate. accumulate synonyms, accumulate pronunciation, accumulate translation, English dictionary definition of accumulate. v. ac·cu·mu·lat·ed , ac·cu·mu·lat·ing , ac·cu·mu·lates v. tr. 1. To gather or cause to increase; amass: We accumulated enough wood for a fire.

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