accumulates
- 1Third-person singular simple present of accumulate.
Interest accumulates on the loan with each passing month.
The company accumulates vast amounts of data from its users.
Note
One spelling serves both halves of the verb. With an object it means gathering something up, often gradually and without intent: a desk accumulates paper, a collector accumulates stamps. Without an object, the subject itself is what grows: dust accumulates, debt accumulates. If you can sensibly ask "accumulates what?", it is the transitive use. Plural subjects, I and you take the bare form: the files accumulate.
accumulates 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 → accumulates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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