All 3 Uses of
accumulate
in
Babbitt
- They worked perhaps two hours a day, and the rest of the time they ate chocolates, went to the motion-pictures, went window-shopping, went in gossiping twos and threes to card-parties, read magazines, thought timorously of the lovers who never appeared, and accumulated a splendid restlessness which they got rid of by nagging their husbands.†
Chpt 9
- Week by week he accumulated nervousness.†
Chpt 16 *
- He lost the accumulated weariness of business—worry and expansive oratory; he felt young and potential.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase