accumulate vs garner

accumulate

verb
  • To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively) 

  • To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number. 

adj
  • Collected; accumulated. 

garner

verb
  • To gather or become gathered; to accumulate or become accumulated; to become stored. 

  • To gather, amass, hoard, as if harvesting grain. 

  • To reap grain, gather it up, and store it in a granary. 

  • To earn; to get; to accumulate or acquire by some effort or due to some fact 

noun
  • An accumulation, supply, store, or hoard of something. 

  • A granary; a store of grain. 

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