Accumulate

v. amass, gather, collect; be gathered, be collected

Verb
1. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
(synonym) roll up, collect, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
(hypernym) store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
(hyponym) run up
(derivation) collection, aggregation, accumulation, assemblage
2. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up"
(synonym) cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
(hypernym) increase
(hyponym) backlog
(derivation) accumulation, accrual, accruement

v. accumulate, hoard, pile up, pile, store, gather, amass, heap, run up, rack up

adj. accumulated, amassed, piled up

(v. t.)
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
  

(v. i.)
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  

(a.)
Collected; accumulated.
  

verb
to grow together in a group; large quantities of fat accumulated in the arteries