cumulate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb collect or gather
    amass; gather; conglomerate; accumulate; pile up.
    • Journals are accumulating in my office
    • The work keeps piling up

WordNet

Cu"mu*late transitive verb
Etymology
L. cumulatus, p. p. of cumulare to heap up, fr. cumulus a heap. See Cumber.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Cumulated present participle & verbal noun Cumulating
Definitions
  1. To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
    Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.

Webster 1913