0 past simple and past participle of accumulate --
1 to collect a large number of things over a long period of time: --
If you don't go through the papers on your desk on a regular basis, they just keep on accumulating.
The company said the debt was accumulated during its acquisition of nine individual businesses.
As people accumulate more wealth, they tend to spend a greater proportion of their incomes.
In all cases they were found under pressure because of the radiolysis gases accumulated.
Counts were accumulated by scintillation spectroscopy for duplicate aliquots from each of the triplicate experimental samples.
However, active plan participants do not earn interest on their accumulated balances.
Muscular contraction may increase the rate of removal of any accumulated toxins in the muscle.
The organization's network of local voluntary workers and small core of full-time trained personnel accumulated a formidable body of information.
Stachyose appeared later in 147day-old embryos and accumulated until shedding.
Postponed problems: at least one term is a variable, but the accumulated might instantiate that variable.
The accumulated evidence in the published literature world-wide shows that albendazole is an effective anthelminthic in humans.
