Dictionary Definition
accumulate
Verb
1 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" [syn: roll up, collect, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]
2 collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating
in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare, formed from ad- + cumulare "to heap".Pronunciation
- /əˈkjuːmjʊˌleɪt/
Verb
Translations
to pile up
- Dutch: opstapelen, vermeerderen
- German: aufstauen
- Finnish: kasata, kerätä
- Hebrew: לצבור (litzbor)
- Japanese: 積む (tsumu)
to grow in number
- Dutch: zich opstapelen, (zich) vermeerderen
- Finnish: kasaantua, kerääntyä, akkumuloitua
- French: accumuler
- German: sich vermehren
- Hebrew: להצטבר (le'hitzt'aber)
- Indonesian: akumulasi
- Interlingua: accumular se
- Italian: accumularsi
- Japanese: 蓄積する (ちくせきする, chikuseki-suru); たまる (tamaru)
- Maltese: akkumula
- Portuguese: acumular
- Spanish: acumularse
Adjective
- Collected; accumulated.
Italian
Verb
accumulate- Form of Second-person plural imperative, accumulare#Italian|accumulare
Latin
Etymology
From accumuloAdverb
Synonyms
Related terms
References
- Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, 1st edition. (Oxford University Press)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accouple, accrue, advance, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggregate, aggroup, amass, appreciate, articulate, assemble, associate, backlog, balloon, band, batch, bloat, bond, boom, bracket, breed, bridge, bridge over, bring
together, broaden,
bulk, bunch, bunch together, bunch up,
cement, chain, clap together, clump, cluster, collect, colligate, collocate, combine, compare, compile, comprise, concatenate, conglobulate, conglomerate, conjoin, conjugate, connect, copulate, corral, couple, cover, crescendo, cull, cumulate, develop, dig up, draw together,
dredge up, drive together, embrace, encompass, fund, gain, gain strength, garner, garner up, gather, gather in, gather into
barns, gather together, get ahead, get in, get together, glean, glue, go up, group, grow, grub, grub up, heap, heap up, hide, hive, hoard, hoard up, hold, include, increase, intensify, join, juxtapose, keep, knot, lay away, lay by, lay down,
lay in, lay together, lay up, league, link, lump together, make up,
marry, marshal, mass, match, merge, mobilize, mount, multiply, muster, pair, partner, pick, pick up, piece together,
pile, pile up, pluck, proliferate, put away, put
together, put up, raise,
rake up, rally, rise, roll into one, roll up, round
up, run up, save, save up,
scare up, scrape together, scrape up, secrete, shoot up, snowball, solder, span, splice, spread, squirrel, squirrel away, stick
together, stock, stock up,
stockpile, store, store up, strengthen, swell, take in, take up, tape, tie, treasure, treasure up, unify, unite, wax, weld, whip in, widen, yoke