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CUMULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cumulate mean? 

CUMULATE (verb)
  The verb CUMULATE has 1 sense:

1. collect or gatherplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CUMULATE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they cumulate  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it cumulates  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: cumulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: cumulated  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: cumulating  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Collect or gather

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

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

Derivation:

cumulation (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)

cumulative (increasing by successive addition)

cumulus (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)


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