Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To accumulate; to amass.

    kumulieren

  2. (intransitive)To be accumulated.

    kumulieren

More definitions
  • increase in amount by collecting or gathering

Translations

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By meaning 1
accumulate:

Origin

First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumul

First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic use of the participle up until Early Modern English.

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Forms

cumulates, cumulating, cumulated, cumulated
Base formcumulate · to cumulate
3rd person singularcumulates
Present participlecumulating
Past simplecumulated
Past participlecumulated

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycumulate
he, she, itcumulates

Past simpleLesson

all personscumulated

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cumulated
he, she, ithas cumulated

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cumulate

Synonyms

7 synonyms
amassheap upsee Thesaurus:pile up
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words
Relatedcumulativecumuluscumulation
Derivedadcumulateorthocumulate

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
cumcumbersomecumincumulativecuneiformcunnilingus
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