Associations to the word «Accumulate»

Wiktionary

ACCUMULATE, verb. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
ACCUMULATE, verb. (intransitive) To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
ACCUMULATE, adjective. (poetic) (rare) Collected; accumulated.

Dictionary definition

ACCUMULATE, verb. 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".
ACCUMULATE, verb. Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats