Accumulate vs Come_by - What's the difference?
accumulate | come_by | Related terms |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
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. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
(lb) To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
(lb) To come near to; to pass; to visit.
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A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep
English phrasal verbs
Accumulate is a related term of come_by.
As verbs the difference between accumulate and come_by
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while come_by is (lb) to obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.As an adjective accumulate
is (poetic|rare) collected; accumulated.As an interjection come_by is
a command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep.accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.