0 past simple and past participle of accumulate
1 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.
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?
This replaces an accumulated literature of patterns corresponding to words, sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and books that encapsulates meaning from human experience and life.
Each person's individual payoffs and accumulated payoffs were private information.
The second section demonstrates how the accumulated knowledge of sociolinguistics can be applied to the clinical practice of speech-language pathology.
