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ACCUMULATED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Periodically accumulated over time
Example:
accrued leave
Synonyms:
accrued; accumulated
Classified under:
Similar:
increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb accumulate
Context examples:
When the researchers injected pDox-containing silicon particles intravenously into mice with cancerous tumors, the particles traveled through the blood stream and accumulated at the site of tumors, where blood vessels are leakier.
(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)
This extremely high metallicity would indicate WASP-18b might have accumulated greater amounts of solid ices during its formation than Jupiter, suggesting it may not have formed the way other hot Jupiters did.
(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)
On the space station, accumulated fibers do not collapse under their own weight, which makes the station an even better place to study them.
(Subtracting Gravity from Alzheimer's, NASA)
A small closet contained his clothes and the books he had accumulated and for which there was no room on the table or under the table.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
An area where large amounts of the radiotracer have accumulated and where there is a high level of chemical or metabolic activity.
(Hot Lesion, NCI Thesaurus)
Heaven forbid that I should grudge my native country any portion of the wealth that may be accumulated by our descendants!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Differences in the human nose may have accumulated among populations through time as a result of a random process called genetic drift.
(Nose Form Was Shaped by Climate, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The scientists found that similar to humans, more Th17 cells accumulated in the gums of mice with periodontitis compared to healthy mice, which served as a control group.
(Researchers identify immune culprits linked to inflammation and bone loss in gum disease, National Institutes of Health)
A glandular secreting cell in which the apical portion of the secreting cell is cast off along with the secretory products that have accumulated therein.
(Apocrine Cell, NCI Thesaurus)
But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
