Accumulate vs Acrue - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between accumulate and acrue

is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while acrue is .

is (poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.

(accumulat)

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.

He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -

* collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferate

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(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

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