MEANING
To gather or increase through successive additions.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- accumulate evidence
- dust accumulates
On the page
Dust accumulated beneath the untouched chair.
She accumulated evidence before questioning the account openly.
Nearby words
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- accumulate
- Past tense
- accumulated
- Past participle
- accumulated
- Present participle
- accumulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- accumulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are accumulating
- Present perfect
- have/has accumulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been accumulating
- Past
- accumulated
- Past continuous
- was/were accumulating
- Past perfect
- had accumulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been accumulating
- Future
- will accumulate
- Future continuous
- will be accumulating
- Future perfect
- will have accumulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been accumulating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: accumulate; accumulates; accumulated; accumulated; accumulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: accumulates.
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