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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accumulate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
over
▪ By then she had accumulated over two thousand hours.
▪ Their work, accumulated over millennia, could be seen everywhere.
▪ Layers of paint accumulated over centuries were carefully dry-scraped away to reveal the original colour, a greeny-grey blue.
▪ The waste, accumulated over a 40-year period, will remain dangerously radioactive for tens of thousands of years.
▪ With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him.
▪ Kirov assessed the scant information he had managed to accumulate over the last few weeks.
▪ The Club also owned the auditors £400 accumulated over a period.
▪ One contained business matters of the sort that households - even households in the depression years tend to accumulate over the years.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ They accumulate abnormal amounts of sugar which causes them to swell during development.
▪ The real problem may be that your accumulated pension amounts are incorrect, Lipp said.
body
▪ According to natural healing principles, these toxins can lead to disease if they are allowed to accumulate in the body.
▪ Some sleep medications accumulate in the body and cause a hangover feeling the next day. 3.
▪ The residues accumulate in our bodies and can cause cancer and birth defects.
capital
▪ In this hostile environment, there were few opportunities for townsmen to accumulate capital.
▪ It profited from their energy and their accumulated capital.
debt
▪ Compounding the problem, aggressive credit card marketing makes it increasingly easy to accumulate debt.
▪ He would not have found it possible to gamble deeply or to accumulate more debt.
▪ Only nations that reduce their budget deficits to 3 percent of gross domestic product and accumulated debt to 60 percent automatically qualify.
▪ Even so, reptiles accumulate an oxygen debt if active for long periods, as well as suffering from fatigue and slow rates of repayment.
evidence
▪ The visual evidence accumulates in the courtroom without argument: maps, video footage, satellite imagery and photographs.
▪ A great deal of evidence has accumulated to show that this has indeed been the case.
▪ As this evidence accumulates, so does the economic restructuring required becomes inevitable.
▪ How could Spittals know exactly how much evidence she had accumulated against Hebden?
▪ Nothing had been confirmed yet, of course, but the evidence was certainly accumulating against Hebden.
▪ With only one more Saturday before Christmas, the evidence had accumulated with a slow inevitability against Hebden.
▪ The judges will have to pore over the 22 volumes of evidence already accumulated and hear the 66 witnesses for the prosecution.
money
▪ Significantly, such doubts come only after they have accumulated enough money and do not have to worry...
points
▪ Insert a card into the machine at the branch and you can discover exactly how many points you have accumulated.
▪ Pittsburgh also accumulated 11 points, going 5-2-1.
▪ Clubs play against other clubs within their own division, accumulating points for each win or draw throughout the season.
▪ Portsmouth accumulated just 55 disciplinary points despite the added pressure of chasing twin honours.
wealth
▪ How fortunate it is that enthusiasts such as Col. Savill have accumulated a wealth of material illustrating the railway scene.
▪ There was enough accumulated wealth for the third Joseph Wright Alsop to pursue a life as country gentleman.
▪ Grumbold's will indicates that he accumulated considerable wealth, acquiring a substantial amount of leasehold property in Cambridge.
▪ By this definition, large, nonprofit firms that exist primarily to accumulate wealth would not qualify.
▪ One key motivating factor is greed and a desire to accumulate more wealth.
years
▪ This is a genuine photograph showing how much dirt can accumulate after about three years.
▪ With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him.
▪ Two of three women with adenocarcinoma had accumulated more than 45 pack years each and one was also a heavy drinker.
▪ One contained business matters of the sort that households - even households in the depression years tend to accumulate over the years.
▪ They have already made a start on collating and indexing all the paraphernalia that has accumulated over the years.
▪ These are accumulated over many years and may vigorously colour the way we respond to all kinds of situations today.
▪ Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites.
▪ The air is thick with dust, accumulated over years of not-remembering, years of not wanting to know.
■ VERB
allow
▪ There is no unique identifier that allows you to accumulate and match data.
▪ First the carbon dioxide is filtered and allowed to accumulate in a container.
▪ Similarly, the principle of the Law of Jubilee was that the rich should not be allowed to accumulate all property rights.
▪ According to natural healing principles, these toxins can lead to disease if they are allowed to accumulate in the body.
▪ Neither dirt nor refuse must be allowed to accumulate, and all floors and stairs shall be cleaned at least once a week.
begin
▪ Their electron traps are bleached during transport but after sedimentation and burial they begin to accumulate electrons once more.
▪ This idea became known as seafloor spreading, and hard geophysical evidence to support the concept began accumulating in the early 1960s.
▪ Disappointment and frustration began to accumulate in criticism of Buxton as parliamentary leader of the cause.
▪ The rhythm slows down in the second quatrain where the s sounds begin to accumulate.
▪ As data begin to accumulate on daily food requirements of different species, we can test more fine-grained hypotheses.
▪ By 1938, the District achieved a balanced financial position and thereafter began to accumulate small credit balances.
tend
▪ Just beyond the crest they will tend to accumulate, for the effect of the wind is felt less here.
▪ One contained business matters of the sort that households - even households in the depression years tend to accumulate over the years.
▪ The new big cities tended to accumulate in a comparatively small number of countries.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An army of 1650 plows and 2000 workers will be out this afternoon as snow begins to accumulate.
▪ By the late 1950s scientists had already accumulated enough evidence to show a clear link between smoking and cancer.
▪ Huge snowdrifts had accumulated on the airport's runways.
▪ I just don't know how we've managed to accumulate so much junk!
▪ Martin had accumulated $80,000 in debt.
▪ Over a period of years, the drug will accumulate in the body and damage the nervous system.
▪ Sand had accumulated at the mouth of the river and formed a bank which boats could not pass.
▪ Watkins said he has accumulated more than $100,000 in legal bills.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ First the carbon dioxide is filtered and allowed to accumulate in a container.
▪ In New York City, 1 to 3 inches of snow is expected to accumulate before changing to freezing rain tonight.
▪ Supplies enough for surviving at least thirty days have to be accumulated and transported.
▪ The remaining oxygen atoms simply accumulate in the atmosphere.
▪ With the fury that had accumulated over the years I pulled up some onions and flung them at him.
▪ Within eight years he had fully repaid his creditors and accumulated a greater fortune than ever before.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accumulate

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.

Syn: To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.

Accumulate

Accumulate \Ac*cu"mu*late\ (-l[asl]t), a. [L. accumulatus, p. p. of accumulare.] Collected; accumulated.
--Bacon.

Accumulate

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.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
--Goldsmith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accumulate

1520s, from Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare "to heap up" (see accumulation). Related: Accumulated; accumulating.

Wiktionary
accumulate

  1. (context poetic rare English) Collected; accumulated. v

  2. 1 (context transitive English) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass. 2 (context intransitive English) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

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WordNet
accumulate

  1. v. 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]

Usage examples of "accumulate".

Intense fear causes great drops of perspiration to accumulate on the skin, while the salivary glands remain inactive.

The products resulting from the waste of the tissues are constantly being poured into the blood, and, as we have seen, the blood being everywhere full of corpuscles, which, like all living things, die and decay, the products of their decomposition accumulate in every part of the circulatory system.

The feces may accumulate in the rectum, because they cannot pass this obstruction.

A third hypothesis, which may be seen as complementary to the second, is that today capital continues to accumulate through subsumption in a cycle of expanded reproduction, but that increasingly it subsumes not the noncapitalist environment but its own capitalist terrain-that is, that the subsumption is no longer formal but real.

Whereas our attention was first drawn to the intensity of the elements of virtuality that constituted the multitude, now it must focus on the hypothesis that those virtualities accumulate and reach a threshold of realization adequate to their power.

These individual differences are highly important for us, as they afford materials for natural selection to accumulate, in the same manner as man can accumulate in any given direction individual differences in his domesticated productions.

Wherever sediment did not accumulate on the bed of the sea, or where it did not accumulate at a sufficient rate to protect organic bodies from decay, no remains could be preserved.

But man can and does select the variations given to him by nature, and thus accumulate them in any desired manner.

The dust thus blown, from a desert region may, when it attains a country covered with vegetation, gradually accumulate on its surface, forming very thick deposits.

In such positions the growth of forms which secrete solid skeletons is so rapid that great walls of their remains accumulate next the shore, the mass being built outwardly by successive growths until the realm of the land may be extended for scores of miles into the deep.

Only the showers, which accumulate a deep layer, are apt to be retained on the surface of the country.

As the particles which the creatures devour are rather small, the tendency is to accumulate the finer portions of the soil near the surface of the earth, where by solution they may contribute to the needs of the lowly plants.

Take away the opportunity of the individual to accumulate wealth for himself, and you remove the temptation for fraud, theft and numerous other crimes, for there is then no incentive left for them.

It requires far more ability to build a strong moral character and a kindly feeling for others, than it does to accumulate a mountain of produce.

But owing to the stupid money system, which these laborers them selves help to keep in force, the results of their combined efforts were either usurped by an unproductive class fortunate enough to be born rich, or those shrewd enough to accumulate money, such as trust managers, bankers, real estate speculators, stock jobbers, and brokers, gamblers, burglars, money loan swindlers, high salaried clergymen, etc.