Thesaurus:accumulate
English
Verb
(intransitive)
Sense: to collect in an increasing amount over time
Synonyms
- accrue
- accumulate
- add up [⇒ thesaurus]
- amound (rare)
- gather
- garner (often figurative)
- heap up
- mount up
- stack up
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- clock up (figurative)
- collect
- corrade (obsolete)
- culch (figurative, US dialect)
- foredeal (British dialect)
- glean
- hutch
- lay by
- lay up
- packrat
- pile up [⇒ thesaurus]
- put aside
- put by
- run up (idiomatic)
- save
- save up
- snudge (obsolete)
- sock away
- squirrel away
- stockpile
- store
- tuck away
- —
- feather one's nest (idiomatic)
- line one's pockets (idiomatic)
- —
- hyperaccumulate
- overaccumulate
- reaccumulate
Hypernyms
See also
Further reading
- “72. assemblage” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “accumulate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.