accumulate

accumulate
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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
v. amass, gather; aggregate, collect, hoard, bank; pile up. See acquisition, assemblage, store.Ant., dissipate, squander.
II
(Roget's IV) v.
1. [To amass]
Syn. gather, collect, amass, mass, hoard, get together, pile up, heap, store, assemble, cache, muster, aggregate, cumulate, concentrate, compile, agglomerate, accrue, pile, scrape together, scrape up, stack up, stockpile, store up, garner, heap up, heap together, procure, acquire, gain, load up, attach, draw together, bring together, rake up, lump together, amalgamate, unite, incorporate, add to, save, bank, profit, make money, build up, gain control of, drag in*, haul in*, rake in*, roll in*, squirrel away*.
Ant. scatter*, squander, distribute.
2. [To increase]
Syn. swell, build up, expand, mount up; see grow 1 .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.
heap, collect, pile up, gather, accrete, expand, aggregate, stack up, grow, accrue, swell, amass, assemble.
ANT.: throw off, shed, shuck, disperse, scatter
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb To bring together so as to increase in mass or number: accrue, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, collect1, cumulate, garner, gather, hive, pile up, roll up. See COLLECT.

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