CUMULATE

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 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)

Present simple: I / you / we / they cumulate    ... he / she / it cumulates   
Past simple: cumulated   
Past participle: cumulated   
-ing form: cumulating   

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)