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cumulate
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Latin cumulatus "heaped, increased, augmented," past participle of cumulare "to heap," from cumulus "mound, heap" (see cumulus ). Related: Cumulated ; cumulating .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
accumulated, agglomerated, amassed n. (context geology English) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating. v 1 (context transitive English) To accumulate; to amass. 2 (context intransitive English) ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. collect or gather; "Journals are accumulating in my office"; "The work keeps piling up" [syn: accumulate , conglomerate , pile up , gather , amass ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cumulate \Cu"mu*late\ (k?"m?-l?t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cumulated (-l?`t?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Cumulating (-l?`t?ng).] [L. cumulatus, p. p. of cumulare to heap up, fr. cumulus a heap. See Cumber .] To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate. ...
Usage examples of cumulate.
You see, she can recover from a number of small doses, but at some unknown point the effects cumulate and become irreversible.
Oh, you have a great deal of redundancy in your storage, so the errors will not cumulate very quickly, at least not in any large matters.
Besides, there were far more opportunities to ac cumulate the requisite credit in bustling San Jose than in the smaller, sleepier city on the coast.
Their numbers massed and their power cumulated and the long night of darkness began.
On its rock face, the first Motecuzóma had caused his likeness to be carved in giant size, and every subsequent Uey-Tlatoani had cumulated his example.
The impact of air strikes cumulates slowly in terms of both physical and psychological damage.
The Nameless One added to himself in cornea-thin slivers, cumulating in the darkness like rotting meat growing mold.
And you cannot see what I have felt: the punctured kidney, the compressed chest organs, the poisons cumulating in her liver, the rapid beat of her heart.
He felt the power cumulating in her, felt her pull what she needed from the air.
It was all part of the message she was cumulating for them, in word, gesture, and subtext.
This litany, repeated twelve times, had a cumulating effect of irritation on Challee and on the court.
It was as different as day and dark from his former tone, with a sad, timbrous quality like an alto horn, sinking into their hearts and speaking there again when it had ceased in fading and cumulate echoes.