ACCUMULATE

v. a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

2.
v.

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.
a.

Collected; accumulated. Bacon.


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