English > cumulate: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | Collect or gather. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Something is ----ing PP |
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| Synonyms | accumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass |
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| Narrower | accrete | Grow or become attached by accretion |
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| backlog | accumulate and create a backlog |
| drift | Be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current |
| Broader | increase | Become bigger or greater in amount |
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| Spanish | acumularse, acumular, amontonarse, amontonar, conglomerar, congregar |
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| Catalan | acumular-se, acumular, ajuntar, amuntegar-se, congregar, juntar-se, recol·lectar, reunir-se |
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| Adjectives | cumulative | increasing by successive addition |
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| Nouns | cumulation, cumulus | a collection of objects laid on top of each other |
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