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CUMULATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
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
Example:
The work keeps piling up
Synonyms:
accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
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)
