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CUMULATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does cumulate mean?

• CUMULATE (verb)
The verb CUMULATE has 1 sense:

1. collect or gather

Familiarity information: CUMULATE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CUMULATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Collect or gather

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

amass; conglomerate; cumulate; pile up; accumulate; gather

Context examples:

Journals are accumulating in my office / The work keeps piling up

Hypernyms (to "cumulate" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cumulate"):

backlog (accumulate and create a backlog)

accrete (grow or become attached by accretion)

drift (be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

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