0 to collect a large number of things over a long period of time:
As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.
The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
If you don't go through the papers on your desk on a regular basis, they just keep on accumulating.
1 to collect or increase something gradually, esp. over a period of time:
It can be dangerous to let too much soot accumulate inside a chimney.
During a successful business career, she accumulated a great amount of wealth.
After a long career in the antiques trade, Harry had accumulated many rare treasures.
During our six years in this house, we seem to have accumulated an awful lot of junk.
Why don't you just do a little ironing every now and then, instead of letting it accumulate?
Dislocations of the walls are also due to the accumulating odometry errors of the platform.
The achievements accumulated after his practical turn brought him finally back to questions of a theory of motion from which he had once started.
Over the period from 1977 to 1997, we accumulated more than $3 trillion of national debt.
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