All 4 Uses
accumulate
in
Flags of Our Fathers
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- But in just one month of fighting on this island, they were awarded twenty-seven Medals of Honor: one third their accumulated total.†
Chpt 1. *accumulated = collected or gradually increased
- When it did spring into the nation's consciousness on that Sunday morning, the photograph fused with the accumulated myth, and seemed to depict a final triumph in the very teeth of battle.†
Chpt 12.
- Their fatigues were ripped and thick with accumulated sweat.†
Chpt 13.
- Accumulated folklore has it that Ira was an innocent corrupted by the Bond Tour, that he hated every minute of it.†
Chpt 16.
Definitions:
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(1)
(accumulate) to collect or gradually increase
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)