Antonyms for accumulate
əˈkyu myəˌleɪtac·cu·mu·late

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1. accumulateverb

   Synonyms:
   amass, store, pile up, heap, gather, aggregate, hoard, collect

2. accumulateverb

   Collected; accumulated.

   He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.

   Synonyms:
   aggregate, pile up, amass, store, collect, heap, hoard, gather

3. accumulateverb

   To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

   Synonyms:
   collect, store, pile up, aggregate, heap, gather, hoard, amass

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. accumulate

   To amass is to bring together materials that make a mass, a great bulk or quantity. With some occasional exceptions, accumulate is applied to the more gradual, amass to the more rapid gathering of money or materials, amass referring to the general result or bulk, accumulate to the particular process or rate of gain. We say interest is accumulated (or accumulates) rather than is amassed; he accumulated a fortune in the course of years; he rapidly amassed a fortune by shrewd speculations. Goods or money for immediate distribution are said to be collected rather than amassed. They may be stored up for a longer or shorter time; but to hoard is always with a view of permanent retention, generally selfish. Aggregate is now most commonly used of numbers and amounts; as, the expenses will aggregate a round million.

   Antonyms:
   disperse, dissipate, divide, parcel, portion, scatter, spend, squander, waste

   Synonyms:
   aggregate, amass, collect, gather, heap up, hoard, hoard up, pile up, store up

   Preposition:
   Amass for oneself; for a purpose; from a distance; with great labor; by industry.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. accumulate

   Antonyms:
   dissipate, disperse, diminish, scatter, expend, waste

   Synonyms:
   collect, gamer, grow, mass, heap, store, bring together, hoard, gather, agglomerate, husband, augment, amass, increase

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoardverb

   get or gather together

   "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

   Synonyms:
   heap up, call for, furl, lay away, hoard, stash, cache, amass, gather up, bundle up, wrap up, hive up, squirrel away, compose, roll up, take in, pull in, gather, roll, pick up, conglomerate, pile up, bundle, stack up, collect, pull together, compile, cumulate, garner

2. accumulate, cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amassverb

   collect or gather

   "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"

   Synonyms:
   assemble, heap up, garner, hoard, amass, get together, pucker, meet, conglomerate, roll up, gather, foregather, gain, pile up, stack up, tuck, collect, pull together, compile, cumulate, forgather

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1. decumulate

   Submitted by anonymous on February 23, 2021  

How to use accumulate in a sentence?

1. Edmund Shing:

   I feel relatively confident that we have seen the bottom of the oil price. In such a scenario, high-beta (more volatile) plays like smaller oil explorers and service companies are the first to benefit, at these levels, they also become attractive M&A (takeover) targets as it may be cheaper for big companies to buy exploration firms than find new reserves. If oil prices gain, big players will become more confident, accumulate cash, cut capex and look for cheaper reserves.

2. William Jackson:

   The key question is now whether the central bank will start intervening...Unlike the Swiss they have managed to have that ceiling without actually having to act to maintain it, the concern will be if the exchange rate does come under large pressure and if they accumulate large reserves they would be under pressure to remove the exchange rate ceiling, much like the Swiss had to do earlier in the year.

3. Rand Paul of Kentucky:

   There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

4. Barry Popkin:

   Fat cells are living cells, and as soon as Steven Nissen start to accumulate them, they're essentially impacting Steven Nissen immune system negatively, from the word go, they're inflamed.

5. Van Dam:

   I am particularly concerned for the impending ice storm that will impact the interior of North Carolina. Following a round of heavy snow, up to 3/4 of an inch of ice could accumulate, this will certainly bring power outages in the area as winds gust over 40 mph.

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