Thesaurus:accumulate

Thesaurus

accumulate

English

Verb

(intransitive)

Sense: to collect in an increasing amount over time

Synonyms

• accrue
• accumulate
• add up
• amound (rare)
• gather
• garner (often figurative)
• heap up
• mount up
• stack up

Antonyms

• decline
• decumulate
• lose    [⇒ thesaurus]

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

• assemble    [⇒ thesaurus]
• increase    [⇒ thesaurus]
• receive    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:amass
• Thesaurus:pile up

Further reading

• “72. assemblage” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “accumulate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.