Definition of "accumulate" []

• To gather or pile up; amass. See Synonyms at gather. (verb-transitive)
• To mount up; increase. (verb-intransitive)

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• "The main thing I have realized, as the names accumulate, is the shockingly young age of some writers."
• "We can accumulate from a thoughts of others a small pleasing thoughts; nonetheless a suggestion stays bankrupt as good as empty."
• "The tendency of Capital to accumulate is a big threat to the free market."