cumulate
Plural: cumulates
Verb
Verb Forms: cumulated, cumulating, cumulates
- To gather or pile up; to accumulate.
- collect or gather
- To accumulate; to amass.
- To be accumulated.
Adj
- Accumulated, agglomerated, amassed.
- Cumulated.
Noun
- An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.
Examples
- He managed to CUMULATE a huge score by playing multiple words at once.
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1534; borrowed from Latin cumulātus, perfect passive participle of cumulō (“to pile up”), see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Sporadic participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.
Synonyms
accumulate, amass, conglomerate, gather, pile up, heap up, see Thesaurus:pile up
Scrabble Score: 12
cumulate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcumulate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
cumulate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary