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cu·mu·late  (kymy-lt)

v. cu·mu·lat·ed, cu·mu·lat·ing, cu·mu·lates

v.tr.

1. To gather in a heap; accumulate.

2. To combine into one unit; merge.

v.intr.

To become massed.

adj.

Having cumulated or having been cumulated; heaped up or amassed.

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[Latin cumulre, cumult-, from cumulus, heap; see keu- in Indo-European roots.]

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cumu·lation n.

Thesaurus

Verb

1.

cumulate - collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" amass, conglomerate, pile up, accumulate, gather increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" backlog - accumulate and create a backlog accrete - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion" drift - be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"