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verb (accumulat, ing)
  1. (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
He wishes to a sum of money.
  1. (intransitive) 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
Translations:
  • Dutch: zich opstapelen, (zich) vermeerderen
  • German: sich vermehren
  • French: accumuler
  • Italian: accumularsi
  • Spanish: acumularse
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adjective
  1. (rare) Collected; accumulated.
Etymology: From Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare, formed from ad- + cumulare "to heap".

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