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ACCUMULATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Example:

The work keeps piling up

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accumulate" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accumulate"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The crowds accumulate in the streets

Derivation:

accumulation (the act of accumulating)

accumulative (marked by acquiring or amassing)

accumulative (increasing by successive addition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "accumulate" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accumulate"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They accumulate the money in the closet

Derivation:

accumulation (the act of accumulating)

accumulation (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

accumulative (marked by acquiring or amassing)

accumulative (increasing by successive addition)

Credits

 Context examples: 

As people age, they accumulate damaged cells.

(Scientists Find Natural Product That Slows Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Breakdown of this C3-CR3 interaction results in a decreased ability of microglia to phagocytose dead photoreceptors, which then accumulate in the retina, stimulating greater inflammation and degeneration.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

Another may be slides due to the accumulating weight of seasonal frost buildup on steep slopes.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

Rich people have no right to sit down and enjoy themselves, or let their money accumulate for others to waste.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

People who have hypertension have a greater chance of accumulating white matter lesions and also of experiencing cognitive disorders and dementia later in life.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

Nonenzymatically glycosylated proteins or lipids which accumulate in vascular tissue during aging and at an accelerated rate in diabetes.

(Advanced Glycation End Product, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intradermal administration of BPX-201, these DCs accumulate in local draining lymph nodes.

(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)

X-Ray dose data accumulated over multiple irradiation events (e.g., for a study or a performed procedure step).

(Accumulated X-Ray Dose Data, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

Upon administration, phytofluene is taken up and accumulates in various tissues.

(Carbon C 13 Phytofluene, NCI Thesaurus)

Although the mechanism is unclear, carbon-11 acetate preferentially accumulates in tumor tissue, serving as a tracer for imaging tumors with positron emission tomography (PET).

(Carbon-11 acetate, NCI Thesaurus)