Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Accumulate

Accumulate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare; ad + cumulare to heap. See Cumulate.]

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

Accumulate (ak*kū"mu*lāt) , intransitive verb

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. — Goldsmith

Accumulate (-lat) , adjective

[Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare.]

Collected; accumulated. — Bacon