0 present 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.
Despite this problem, evidence is now accumulating for the separate role of orthographic processing skills from that of phonological skills.
Empirical evidence for embodied cognition is diverse and accumulating.
Indeed, protected by the colonial settlement, their effective powers over their own subjects often increased, as did their possibilities of accumulating wealth.
There has been, if you will allow me, a dialectic of accumulating force in one sphere of rights for pushing for conquests in other spheres.
Yoruba railwaymen came to stable wage labor to become men through accumulating money to marry, build houses, or create patronage relations.
The note issuer in this case was able to 'sterilize' the inflow by accumulating the cash and eventually eliminating the excess supply.
Evidence for maturational constraints in phonology has been accumulating for several decades.
Marketing provided women with an economic base for accumulating wealth for conversion into prestigious titles and political power.
