adj
Meaning 1
Collected; accumulated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, poetic, rare
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adj
Collected; accumulated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, poetic, rare
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively), often gradually and without active intent.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Synonyms: amass, heap, hoard, store, accumulate, agglomerate, build up, cumulate, heap up, mound, pile, pile up, rack up, stack, stack up, upheap
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Synonyms: aggregate, amound, collect, gather
Antonyms: none provided
verb
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: dated
Topics: education
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verb
collect or gather
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: cumulate, conglomerate, pile up, gather, amass
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: increase
Narrower terms: backlog, accrete, drift
verb
get or gather together
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: roll up, collect, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: store, hive away, lay in, put in, salt away, stack away, stash away
Narrower terms: run up, corral, collect, pull in, scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up, lump, chunk, bale, catch, fund
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh1- Proto-Indo-European *ḱuh1mósder.? Latin cumulus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cumulō Latin accumulō Latin accumulātusbor. Middle English accumylaten English accumulate First attested c. 1487; from Middle English accumylaten, borrowed from Latin accumulātus, perfect passive participle of accumulō (“to amass, pile up”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), formed from ad (“to, towards, at”) + cumulō (“to heap”), from cumulus (“a heap”) + -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French accumuler.
Across languages
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