accumulate vs scrape up

accumulate and scrape up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
accumulate	No	No	Yes	No
scrape up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, scrape up is a hyponym of accumulate; that is, scrape up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than accumulate:

Other hyponyms of accumulate include run up, corral, collect, pull in, come up, scrape, scratch, chunk, lump, bale, catch, fund, fund.

accumulate (verb)	scrape up (verb)
increase in amount by collecting or gathering	gather (money or other resources) together over time
get or gather together