What does "accumulate" mean?
Accumulate: To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Additional senses
- 2.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. Goldsmith.
- 3.Collected; accumulated. Bacon.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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