ACCUMULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accumulate mean? 

• ACCUMULATE (verb)
  The verb ACCUMULATE has 2 senses:

1. get or gather together

2. collect or gather

  Familiarity information: ACCUMULATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCUMULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accumulate    ... he / she / it accumulates   
Past simple: accumulated   
Past participle: accumulated   
-ing form: accumulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Hypernyms (to "accumulate" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accumulate"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They accumulate the money in the closet

Derivation:

accumulation (the act of accumulating)

accumulation (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

accumulative (marked by acquiring or amassing)

accumulative (increasing by successive addition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up

Context example:

The work keeps piling up

Hypernyms (to "accumulate" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accumulate"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Sentence example:

The crowds accumulate in the streets

Derivation:

accumulation (the act of accumulating)

accumulative (marked by acquiring or amassing)

accumulative (increasing by successive addition)

 Context examples 

In these disease states, normally soluble proteins aggregate as amyloidogenic insoluble fibrils that accumulate in affected tissues or organs.

(Amyloidogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

Amorolfine inhibits delta-14-reductase and delta-7,8-isomerase, which depletes ergosterol and causes ignosterol to accumulate in the fungal cytoplasmic cell membrane.

(Amorolfine, NCI Thesaurus)

Aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is a metabolic pro-drug that is converted into the photosensitizer protoporphyrin IX (PpIX), which accumulates intracellularly.

(Aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

Nodular localized form of amyloidosis with predominantly thoracic localization (pulmonary amyloidosis), considered as secondary protein structure disease in which insoluble protein fibrils accumulate extracellularly.

(Amyloidoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A glandular secreting cell in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is cast off along with the secretory products that have accumulated therein.

(Apocrine Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, phytoene is taken up and accumulates in various tissues.

(Carbon C 13 Phytoene, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intradermal administration, these DCs accumulate in local draining lymph nodes.

(Autologous Prostate Cancer Antigen-expressing Dendritic Cell Vaccine BPX-101, NCI Thesaurus)

A condition in which deposits of fat accumulate within the interatrial septum.

(Atrial Septum Lipomatous Hypertrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

Proteolytic cleavage of p35 produces p25, which accumulates in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

(Alzheimer's Disease Pathway BioCarta, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Albumin tends to accumulate in solid tumors as a result of high metabolic turnover, rapid angiogenesis, hypervasculature, and impaired lymphatic drainage.

(Aldoxorubicin, NCI Thesaurus)