All 4 Uses of
accumulate
in
Childhood's End
- By noon an imposing collection of flyers had accumulated in the park, and the later arrivals would have quite a distance to walk once they had found somewhere to land.†
Chpt 7 *accumulated = collected or gradually increased
- Yet one could do much, thanks to the knowledge patiently accumulated during the past hundred years.†
Chpt 15
- Not that it was very easy to be certain about the dirt, which had to accumulate for a considerable time before it showed against Jeff's normal sunburn.†
Chpt 17accumulate = collect or gradually increase
- Because we banned nuclear weapons and all the other deadly toys you were accumulating in your armouries, the danger of physical annihilation was removed.†
Chpt 20accumulating = collecting or gradually increasing
Definition:
to collect or gradually increase