Both Uses of
accumulate
in
Catch-22
- Dirt flew everywhere; the scene was almost like the morning in Pianosa seven months later after the night Milo bombed the squadron with every plane he had accumulated in his M & M syndicate, and the airfield, bomb dump and repair hangars as well, and all the survivors were outside hacking cavernous shelters into the solid ground and roofing them over with sheets of armor plate stolen from the repair sheds at the field and with tattered squares of waterproof canvas stolen from the side flaps of each other's tents.†
Chpt 10accumulated = collected or gradually increased
- He hurried along the fossilized wooden ties with accumulating mutinous anger.†
Chpt 25 *accumulating = collecting or gradually increasing
Definition:
to collect or gradually increase