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accumulated

accumulated \accumulated\ adj. 1. 1 brought together into a group or crowd the accumulated letters in my office

Syn: assembled, collected, congregate, massed

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accumulated

past participle adjective from accumulate (v.). It drove out accumulate (adj.) in this sense (except in poetic use) by c.1700.

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accumulated

vb. (en-past of: accumulate)

WordNet
accumulated
  1. adj. brought together into a group or crowd; "the accumulated letters in my office" [syn: amassed, assembled, collected, congregate, massed]

  2. periodically accumulated over time; "accrued interest"; "accrued leave" [syn: accrued]

Usage examples of "accumulated".

While increasing the discharge of noxious elements accumulated in the system, it promptly arrests the wastes arising from debility, and the unusual breaking down of the cells incident to quick decline.

The object sought in the administration of these is the evacuation of the accumulated fluids through the kidneys and bowels, thus giving relief.

The operation consists in dividing the hymen by a crucial incision, thus allowing the accumulated fluid to be discharged, after which the vagina is cleansed by syringing it with warm water.

I think almost any invalid who will visit your Hotel, and see for themselves the wonderful appliances that you have accumulated for the cure of disease, must soon become convinced that if there can be any hope of relief it can be secured there, if anywhere.

As it contests the dead labor accumulated against it, living labor always seeks to break the fixed territorializing structures, the national organizations, and the political figures that keep it prisoner.

The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude-as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living.

More important, the nature of the labor and wealth accumulated is changing.

Economic development within the United States and stabilization and reform in Europe and Japan were all guaranteed by the United States insofar as it accumulated imperialist superprofits through its relationship to the subordinate countries.

General intellect is a collective, social intelligence created by accumulated knowledges, techniques, and knowhow.

The means of destruction accumulated on a scale that well-nigh kept pace with the increase in the potential wealth of mankind.

The one certain fact in the situation was the accumulated disinclination of the Russian people for any further warfare.

By the beginning of 1915 they had accumulated a sufficient mass of evidence from the belligerent countries to convince them that great masses of people in these countries were as amazed and as anxious to end the widening bloodshed and brutalization as the neutral onlookers.

He is among the least credible figures in all history, and a great incrustation of legends has accumulated about him.

Nagoya and hundreds of casualties, and afterwards there began a frantic dumping of accumulated goods abroad, to pay not merely for munitions but for such now vitally essential imports as Australian meat and Canadian and American corn.

They accepted the most arbitrary and simple explanations of their accumulated net of relationships, and were oblivious even to fundamental changes in that net.