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verb (accumulat, ing)
- (transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
- He wishes to a sum of money.
- (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
- (rare) Collected; accumulated.
Etymology: From Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare, formed from ad- + cumulare "to heap".
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