Overaccumulates

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Gathers or collects more than necessary or usual in quantity or degree
2. Increases in amount beyond a normal or healthy level
3. Builds up an excessive or surplus amount over time

Etymology: "Overaccumulates" is the third-person singular present form of "overaccumulate," a verb built by attaching the prefix "over-" to "accumulate." The prefix is native English, descending from Old English "ofer," which meant "above" or "beyond" and shares a distant ancestry with Latin "super" and Greek "hyper." So the word joins an ancient sense of excess onto a much younger verb. "Accumulate" came into English from Latin "accumulare," a combination of "ad-" ("to") and "cumulare" ("to heap up"), itself from "cumulus," a heap or pile. Its English history begins in Middle English as "accumylaten," borrowed directly from the Latin past participle "accumulatus." Its sense of gradually piling things up, of gathering a growing mass, is the original image the whole family of words still carries.

Synonyms: accumulates excessively, overgathers, overstores

Antonyms: underaccumulates, accumulates insufficiently