accumulate
verb (used with object), ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing.
verb (used without object), ac·cu·mu·lat·ed, ac·cu·mu·lat·ing.
Origin of accumulate
Related Words for accumulating
compile, acquire, swell, assemble, accrue, increase, collect, concentrate, gain, hoard, grow, expand, incorporate, cache, profit, gather, procure, unite, agglomerate, amalgamateExamples from the Web for accumulating
Contemporary Examples of accumulating
Idiocies multiply in direct proportion to the accumulating legal rigidities.
The scientific evidence on which he would base the decision was accumulating.
You knew that where there's big money, there's always somebody that's pretty clever at accumulating some of it.
But in the South, the utter lack of status had prevented black Southerners from accumulating wealth in the first place.
Arkady Gaydamak, a Russian-Israeli oilman and financier, explained his elite view of accumulating wealth to me in 2005.
Historical Examples of accumulating
I watch them accumulating just as I watch the waves of the sea.
My Double LifeSarah Bernhardt
She fancied every man a seducer, and every hour an hour of accumulating peril!
Beaux and Belles of EnglandMary Robinson
All kinds of impressions, you see, had been accumulating, and they thronged like phantoms about me.
Some of those who are with us, and yet not of us, are accumulating wealth.
Broken BreadThomas Champness
There it goes on accumulating as a result of industry; but what then?