Accumulate

Table of contents

1 Etymology 2 Transitive verb 2.1 Synonyms 3 Translations 4 Intransitive verb 5 Translations 6 Adjective

Etymology

Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate

Transitive verb

to accumulate Imperfect and past participle: Accumulated
Present participle: Accumulating

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

Synonyms

• To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard .

Translations

• Finnish: kasata , kerätä

Intransitive verb

to accumulate

1. To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

   Quotations

   • Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. - Goldsmith

Translations

• Dutch: opstapelen , akkumuleren
• Finnish: kasaantua , kerääntyä , akkumuloitua
• French: accumuler
• German: akkumulieren sich
• Indonesian: akumulasi
• Interlingua: accumular se
• Italian: accumularsi
• Japanese: 蓄積する (ちくせきする, chikuseki-suru)
• Portuguese: acumular
• Spanish: acumularse

Adjective

1. Collected; accumulated. - Bacon