accumulated
- 1Simple past and past participle of accumulate.
Over the decade, the company accumulated a significant amount of debt.
Sediment accumulated at the bottom of the lake during the wet season.
Note
One spelling does two grammatical jobs: the simple past (profits accumulated) and the participle after have or be (had accumulated, was accumulated). Because accumulate works both with and without an object, the form can take one, as in the company accumulated debt, or stand alone, as when sediment accumulated on a lakebed. Only the object-taking use forms a passive: debt was accumulated, but dust that simply gathers has accumulated.
accumulated is a form of accumulate
accumulate, verb: To gather or pile up a quantity of something over time, often gradually and without deliberate effort. Full entry
- Forms
- accumulateaccumulates he/she/itaccumulating -ing formaccumulated past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- accumulate → accumulated: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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