Accumulate

Definitions: Accumulate

Accumulate

Verb

1. Get together.

2. Collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up".

3. Get or bring together; "accumulate evidence".

Date "accumulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Accumulate

Synonyms: amass (v), collect (v), compile (v), conglomerate (v), cumulate (v), gather (v), hoard (v), pile up (v), pull in (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assemblage	Assemble, muster; bring together, get together, put together, draw together, scrape together, lump together; collect, collocate, colligate; get, whip in; gather; hold a meeting; convene, convoke, convocate; rake up, dredge; heap, mass, pile; pack, put up, truss, cram; acervate; agglomerate, aggregate; compile; group, aggroup, concentrate, unite; collect into a focus, bring into a focus; amass, accumulate; (store); collect in a dragnet; heap Ossa upon Pelion.
Store	Verb: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	How to accumulate wealth with mutual funds (reference) Kiplinger's Invest Your Way to Wealth/How Ordinary People Can Accumulate Extraordinary Amounts of Money (reference) How to accumulate tax-sheltered wealth and keep it in the family (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Georg C. Lichtenberg	We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Junius	One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	I sat up, rubbed my eyes, and began to accumulate Facts.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Damaged kidneys may allow urea to accumulate in the blood, thus causing uremia. (references)
		Fibers and plaques may start to accumulate years before symptoms of CJD begin to appear. (references)
		Dermal vessels become dilated, leaky, and accumulate excessive basement membrane-like material. (references)
Discrimination	Tonga	Nonetheless it is possible for ordinary citizens to rise to cabinet positions in government and to accumulate great wealth and status in the private sector. (references)
Economic History	Kazakhstan	Capital inflows and commodity exports have enabled the National Bank to accumulate foreign exchange reserves, and at the same time to lower interest rates as inflation is kept under control. (references)
	Zimbabwe	Since late 1999, the IMF's program with Zimbabwe has remained suspended due to non-compliance with conditions; and since January 2001, the country has not made payments to the IMF, causing arrears to accumulate for the first time in Zimbabwe's history. (references)
Minorities	Togo	Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references)
Trade	Honduras	Monetary authorities continued measures to soak up excess liquidity in the financial system in order to maintain price stability and accumulate international reserves. (references)
Travel	Chad	Chadian workers accumulate two days of paid vacation for each month of work. (references)
Women	Guatemala	The new form contained 43 questions that enable authorities to establish the nature of the offense and to accumulate meaningful statistics. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The idea that you're evil and need to be kept down as soon as you accumulate a little wealth is obscene.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	Should a surplus be permitted to accumulate beyond the appropriations, it must be retained in the Treasury, as it now is, or distributed among the people or the States.
George W. Bush	2001-2005	We began to think less of the goods we can accumulate, and more about the good we can do.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Accumulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 77.94% of the time. "Accumulate" is used about 340 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	77.94%	265	18,112
Lexical Verb (base form)	19.71%	67	40,952
Noun (singular)	2.35%	8	124,375
Total	100.00%	340	N/A

Expressions using "accumulate": accumulate goods ♦ accumulate interest on the capital ♦ accumulate riches. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "accumulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		akkumuleer (heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Albanian		akumuloj, mbledh (add, add together, assemble, bank, brush up, call in, call together, cast, cast up, clench, collate, collect, compile, compress, congregate, convene, convoke, draw, dredge, drum up, focus, fold, fund, furl, gather, get together, group, herd, impound, kilt, levy, lift, make up, pack, pick, pick off, pick up, pool, rally, reap, round up, scoop up, shut, sweep, take, total, totalize), grumbulloj (amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite). (various references)

Arabic		‏كوم (amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, lumber, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏كدس (amass, cumulate, get together, heap, heap up, overstock, pile, pile up, stack), ‏تكدس (jam, overcrowding, overstock, overstocked, pile up, settlement, squash, stack), ‏تراكم (accumulation, bank, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press), ‏جمع (add, addition, aggregate, ally, amass, assemblage, assemble, band, be gathered, cast, collect, collecting, collection, combination, combine, compile, compose, congregate, connecting, corral, embody, fund, gather, gathering, glean, go berrying, grouping, herd, ingathering, joining up, lump, marshal, muster, pickup, piece together, pile, pile up, pool, put together, raise, rake, rally, reap, round up, scratch, scratch together, stack, sum, sum up, summation, summing up, tot, total, totalize, unite, uniting), ‏ركم (bank). (various references)

Bulgarian		събирам (add, add together, add up, aggregate, amass, assemble, bring together, call forth, call together, club, collect, compile, congregate, cumulate, drum up, embody, enlist, foot, furl, garner, gather, get together, harvest, lump, lump together, mass, muster, muster up, pin down, pull together, punch, raise, rake, rake together, rake up, rally, reassemble, reunite, round up, run up, scare up, sum, sum up, swoop, total, totalize, whip in), увеличавам (accrete, add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, enlarge, expand, improve, increase, magnify, multiply, put up, swell), натрупвам (agglomerate, amass, bank, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, heap, huddle, lumber, pile, pyramid, shovel up, stack, store), акумулирам. (various references)

Chinese		藏 (Buddhist or Taoist scripture, depository, store, storehouse, Tibet, to conceal, to harbor, to hide away, Zang), 積累 , 积累 (Accumulated, Accumulating), 累計 , 累 (cumbersome, implicate, tired), 稹 (fine and close), � �積 . (various references)

Czech		akumulovat, narùstat (accrue, boil up, build, build up), nahromadit se (Mount). (various references)

Danish		gasarten er tungere end luft og kan ophobe sig i lavninger og forårsage iltmangel (the gas is heavier than air and may accumulate in lowered spaces causing deficiency of oxygen), dampen er tungere end luft og kan ophobe sig i lavninger og forårsage iltmangel (the vapour is heavier than air and may accumulate in lowered spaces causing deficiency of oxygen). (various references)

Dutch		ophopen (amass, heap, pile up, stack), opeenhopen (amass, heap, pile up, stack), accumuleren (heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Esperanto		akumuli (heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Faeroese		hópast, flykkjast (abound, form a group, swarm). (various references)

Farsi		جمع شونده (Cumulative), جمع شده , اندوختن (Acquire, Hive, Pile, Reserve, Rollup, Save, Store), انباشتن (Agglomerate, Assemble, Bulk, Cumulate, Garner, Hill, Hoard, Hoarding, Stack, Stash, Stow, Stuff), رویهم انباشتن (Bank, Pyramid). (various references)

Finnish		kertyä (flow in, gather), kerääntyä (assemble, collect, gather), kasata (amass, heap, pile), kasaantua (drift), kartuttaa (add to, augment, heap, increase, pile), karttua (grow, increase). (various references)

French		accumuler. (various references)

German		sich ansammeln (accrue, build up, collect, gather, pile up, to gather), häufen (amass, heap, heap up, pile up, stack), ansammeln (accrue, accumulation, aggrégation, amass, build up, concentrate, congestion, contract, gather together, lay up, stocking, storing). (various references)

Greek		συσσωρεύω (agglomerate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, heap, hoard, mass, pile, pile up, stack), συσσωρεύομαι (conglomerate, pile up). (various references)

Hebrew		לערום (amass, heap, pile, stack), לא�'ור (amass, collect, gather, hoard, lay up, stash, stock up, store), לאצור (collect, garner, hoard, store up, treasure), ל�"צטבר (accrue, pile up), ל�'בוב (collect, gather), לצבור (amass, collect, gather, heap up, pile up, rake, stack, stash, store). (various references)

Hungarian		felhalmoz (aggregate, amass, bulk, clump, cumulate, heap, heap up, hoard, lay up, mass, pile up, stack, to accumulate, to agglomerate, to aggregate, to ball, to clump, to engross, to heap, to heap up, to hive, to hoard, to hoard up, to lay up, to lumber, to pile on, to pile up, to treasure, to treasure up). (various references)

Icelandic		safnast saman (heap, pile up, stack), safna (heap, pile up, stack), hlaðast upp (heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Indonesian		menumpuki (hoard, pile up on top of something), menumpuk (pile up), menimbun (amass, bond, cumulate), mengakumulasikan. (various references)

Italian		accumulare (amass, gather, heap, hoard, pile, pile up, rack up, run up, store), ammassare (amass, bank, bulk, crowd together, gather together, heap, hoard, lump, mass, pile up, stack). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�積 (accumulation, store). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちくせき (accumulation, store). (various references)

Korean		축� �하십시�". (various references)

Manx		chymsaghey (gather, pick off, round up, scrape together), chaglym (assemble, collection, conclusion, deduce, gather, whip round; effort), carnanaghey (clamp, heap, lump, pack, pack of earth, stock up). (various references)

Norwegian		samle (gather), hope seg opp. (various references)

Papiamen		akumulá (heap, pile up, stack). (various references)

Pig Latin		accumulateay.(various references)

Portuguese		acumular (amass, bank, build up, coffer, collect, combine, congest, cumulate, fund, heap, jam, load, mass, mound, pack, pile up, piled, stack, stash, stuff). (various references)

Romanian		aglomera (agglomerate, aggregate, conglomerate, crowd, gather, jam, overcrowd, throng), aduna (abstract, add, add up, amass, assemble, call, cast up, collect, concentrate, congregate, crowd, deduce, engross, foot-up an account, forage, garner, gather, glean, harvest, heap, huddle up, ingather, jam, lay in, lump, muster, pack, pick up, pile, pile up, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, scoop up, sum, take up, tot, total, troop), acumula (agglomerate, amass, augment, garner, heap, hoard, pile, stockpile, store), strânge (accrete, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), spori (accrue, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, heighten, improve, increase, intensify, make, multiply, propagate, spurt, step up, thicken), cumula (cumulate), capitaliza (amass, capitalize), înmagazina (stockpile, warehouse), îngråmådi (amass, heap, pile up, stack), îngrãmãdi (acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, cram, crowd, drift, garner, gather, heap, huddle, jam, lumber, lump, pack, pile, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze, throng), înghesui (amass, bay, beat a path, corner, cram, crib, crowd, heap, jam, jostle, nip, pack, pile up, squeeze, stack, stuff). (various references)

Russian		накапливать (compile, cumulate, pile up, store). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		akumulirati, nagomilati (aggregate, amass, collect, garner, heap, hill, hoard, lay up, pile, pile up, stock, stock up, stockpile), gomilati (mass, treasure). (various references)

Spanish		acumular (amass, cache, garner, gather, hoard, hoard up, lay in, lay up, pile up, stock, stockpile). (various references)

Swedish		ackumulera, samla på sig, hopa sig (aggregate, crowd), hopa (agglomerate, aggregate, amass, cumulate, heap up). (various references)

Turkish		yığmak (agglomerate, amass, bank up, cast up, clump, clutter, clutter up, congest, conglomerate, drift, dump, heap up, Hill, lay up, lump, mass, pack, pile, pile on, pile up, put up, roll up, shake down, stack, stock), toplanmak (agglomerate, assemble, band together, build, bunch, club, club together, cluster, collect, combine, congregate, convene, crowd, drift, flock, forgather, gather, get together, group, herd, horde, keep together, meet, meet in council, mob, muster, rally, reunite, roll up, shoal, sit, sit on, swarm, swarm to a place, throng, troop, troop together, troop up, turn out), toplamak (add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, hoard, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), biriktirmek (amass, collect, gather, keep back, lay aside, lay by, put aside, put away, put by, roll up, salt, save, set apart, set by, setaside, treasure up), birikmek (collect, come together, pile up, roll up). (various references)

Ukranian		скупчуватися (agglomerate, amass, collect, congest, conglomerate, crowd, flock, huddle, throng), складати (aggregate, amount, bolt, compose, congregate, make, make up, number, redact, tot, wage), нарастати, накопичувати (amass, cumulate, gather, heap, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, put aside, save), нагромаджувати (agglomerate, bulk, congest, crowd, pyramid, stockpile), акумулювати. (various references)

Welsh		pentyrru (amass, heap, pile), cronni (amass, collect, dam, hoard), casglu (amass, collect, gather, infer). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	accumulo, aggeres, aggeris, aggestum, conglobati, cumulare, exaggero. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "accumulate": accumulated, accumulates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Accumulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acccumulate, accomulate, accumilate, accummulate, accumula, accumulare, ackumulate, acumulate, Caculuma, carunculate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "accumulate" (pronounced ukyuw"myulā't)
6	-m y u l ā' t	emulate, formulate, reformulate, simulate, stimulate.
5	-y u l ā' t	articulate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, copulate, depopulate, inoculate, manipulate, miscalculate, overregulate, populate, recalculate, regulate, reregulate, speculate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate.
4	-u l ā' t	adulate, annihilate, assimilate, congratulate, correlate, distillate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, gastrulate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, mutilate, oscillate, percolate, postulate, recapitulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
3	-l ā' t	angulate, boilerplate, breastplate, capitulate, contemplate, ejaculate, electroplate, legislate, nameplate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-m-t-u-u"
	-2 letters: cumulate, maculate.
	-3 letters: calumet, maculae.
	-4 letters: acetal, acetum, actual, acuate, almuce, amulet, caecal, caecum, camlet, lactam, luteum, macula, macule, malate, meatal, mucluc, muleta, mutual, mutuel, mutule, talcum, tamale, umlaut.
	-5 letters: aceta, acute, alate, caeca, camel, cecal, cecum, cleat, culet, eclat, lutea, macle, mecca, metal, mulct, tamal, ulama, ulema.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-e-l-m-t-u-u"
	+1 letter: accumulated, accumulates.
	+2 letters: accumulative.
	+4 letters: accumulatively, circumambulate.
	+5 letters: circumambulated, circumambulates.
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