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Definition of Cumulate
1. Verb. Collect or gather. "The crowds cumulate in the streets"; "The work keeps piling up"
Generic synonyms: Increase
Specialized synonyms: Backlog, Accrete, Drift
Derivative terms: Accumulation, Accumulative, Accumulative, Conglomeration, Conglomeration, Cumulation, Cumulative, Cumulus, Gathering
Definition of Cumulate
1. v. t. To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Definition of Cumulate
1. Verb. (transitive) To accumulate; to amass. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To be accumulated. ¹
3. Adjective. accumulated, agglomerated, amassed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cumulate
1. to heap [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES] - See also: heap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cumulate
Literary usage of Cumulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Organization and Management of Business Corporations by Walter Collins Clephane (1913)
"To cumulate Votes. In some states, as in New York 41 and New Jersey,42 the law
requires the provision permitting cumulative voting to be inserted in the ..."
2. Phrasis: A Treatise on the History and Structure of the Different Languages by Jacob Wilson (1864)
"... Gamal, collect, cumulate. Ruh, rest, Q-. ruhig. Gaal, kar, make. Ra-gib, wish, L.
cupio. Harr, burn, warm. San, tooth, L. dens. Gaz, go, went. ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"CUNEIFORME, adj. cuneiform; -wedge-like. CUMULER, va reg. 1ère con/., to cumulate.
.... cumulate ..."