accumulate
Collected; accumulatedCollected; accumulated.
» Dust had accumulated on the desk.
Auf dem Schreibtisch hatte sich Staub angesammelt.
На столе скопилась пыль.
Meaning
1 senses(not comparable, poetic, rare)Collected; accumulated.
Examples
82 sentencesDust had accumulated on the desk.
ruНа столе скопилась пыль. — sharptoothed
deAuf dem Schreibtisch hatte sich Staub angesammelt. — jxan
He accumulated his fortune by hard work.
ruОн сколотил своё состояние упорным трудом. — fjay69
Tom has accumulated a lot of junk.
deTom hat eine Menge Unrat angehäuft. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He has accumulated quite a collection of books.
ruОн собрал приличную коллекцию книг. — afyodor
How much stuff have you accumulated over the years?
Origin
First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus,First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.
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