accumulate [ a·ccu·mu·late ]
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1. Gather together or acquire an increasing number or quantity of.
Their pay increases as they accumulate experience and develop skills.
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2. Gradually gather or acquire (a resulting whole)
her goal was to accumulate a huge fortune
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3. Gather; build up.
Lead accumulates in the body and its effects are irreversible.
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1. Late 15th century from Latin accumulat- ‘heaped up’, from the verb accumulare, from ad- ‘to’ + cumulus ‘a heap’.

