All 3 Uses of
accumulate
in
Oryx and Crake
- He's lost count — they've accumulated a stock of lore, of conjecture about him: Snowman was once a bird but he's forgotten how to fly and the rest of his feathers fell out, and so he is cold and he needs a second skin, and he has to wrap himself up.†
p. 8.8accumulated = collected or gradually increased
- He'd done cough medicine, shaving lotion, rubbing alcohol; out behind the tree he's accumulated an impressive dump of empty bottles.†
p. 106.9
- The girls Jimmy accumulated had found Crake more than a little creepy, and it had made Jimmy feel superior to come to his defence.†
p. 193.2 *
Definition:
to collect or gradually increase