Antonyms for accumulating

Grammar : Verb

Spell : uh-kyoo-myuh-leyt

Phonetic Transcription : əˈkyu myəˌleɪt

Definition of accumulating

Origin : 1520s, from Latin accumulatus, past participle of accumulare "to heap up" (see accumulation). Related: Accumulated; accumulating.

verb gather or amass something

Example sentences :

I watch them accumulating just as I watch the waves of the sea.
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

She fancied every man a seducer, and every hour an hour of accumulating peril!
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

All kinds of impressions, you see, had been accumulating, and they thronged like phantoms about me.
Extract from : « The Best Short Stories of 1915 » by Various

Some of those who are with us, and yet not of us, are accumulating wealth.
Extract from : « Broken Bread » by Thomas Champness

There it goes on accumulating as a result of industry; but what then?
Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 » by Various

What I have set aside as your share is untouched, and has been accumulating all these years.
Extract from : « The Watchers of the Plains » by Ridgewell Cullum

The smouldering passion that had been accumulating for weeks boiled up.
Extract from : « The Fighting Edge » by William MacLeod Raine

Don't let the injury to Her and the weight on my conscience go on accumulating.
Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol

It is for you and our only child that I am accumulating a fortune.
Extract from : « Rich Enough » by Hannah Farnham Sawyer Lee

Freeman daily asseverated that "they" were accumulating the stock.
Extract from : « The Tipster » by Edwin Lefevre

Synonyms for accumulating

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