accumulate

/ə'kju:mjuleit/
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Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To gradually collect or gather over time: To increase in quantity or amount by successive additions, often resulting in a growing heap or stockpile.
    • To bring together or assemble: To amass or bring various items into one place or group.
Examples of Usage
  • Verb:
    • Dust tends to accumulate on bookshelves if you don't clean regularly.
    • He managed to accumulate a vast collection of rare stamps over fifty years.
    • The company has accumulated significant debt.
    • She hopes to accumulate enough savings to buy a house.
Advanced Usage
  • "to accumulate experience/knowledge": To gradually gain and build up practical understanding or information through repeated exposure or study.
    • During his internship, he was able to accumulate valuable work experience.
  • "to accumulate interest" (Finance): For money in an account to grow as interest is added to the principal sum.
    • The investment will accumulate compound interest over the decades.
Variants and Related Words
  • Accumulation (n): The process or result of accumulating; a mass or collection of something that has gradually gathered.
    • The steady accumulation of snow led to road closures.
  • Accumulative (adj): Tending to or resulting from accumulation; cumulative.
    • The accumulative effect of daily exercise is improved health.
  • Accumulator (n): A person or thing that accumulates, such as a rechargeable battery or a type of bet.
    • He is a notorious accumulator of useless facts.
Synonyms
  • Amass: To gather a large quantity of something, especially wealth or information.
  • Collect: To bring items together from different places or over time.
  • Gather: To come together, or bring things together, increasing in number or amount.
  • Hoard: To accumulate and store away, often with a sense of secrecy or excess.
Antonyms
  • Disperse: To distribute or spread over a wide area; to scatter.
  • Dissipate: To cause something to disappear or scatter, often wastefully.
  • Diminish: To make or become less.
Related Phrasal Verbs/Constructions
  • "Build up": To increase gradually in intensity, quantity, or size, similar to accumulate.
    • Tension has been building up between the two departments.
  • "Pile up": To accumulate in a disorderly heap or to increase in number, often of problems or tasks.
    • Unanswered emails are starting to pile up.
Related Idioms
  • "Let things accumulate": To allow tasks or objects to gather without dealing with them.
    • If you let chores accumulate, they become overwhelming.
  • "Snowball effect": (Conceptually related) A process that starts from an initial state of small significance and builds upon itself, becoming larger and more significant, much like an accumulation.
    • Their small investment had a snowball effect, eventually accumulating into great wealth.
Verb
  1. collect or gather
    • Journals are accumulating in my office
    • The work keeps piling up
  2. 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

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