accumulate
verb (used with object)
to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees; heap up.
accumulatively
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a word derived from
accumulate.
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a word derived from
accumulative.
Example Sentences
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The test would then be repeated at regular intervals on an accumulatively larger sample of the population, to track the pandemic’s progress.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2020
Ox-Cart Man, the book, is about a family, and how the small daily work of this family accumulatively makes their lives better.
From Slate ● Jul. 5, 2018
By micro details, I mean simple yet accumulatively transcendent ephemera.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 21, 2016
