Accumulate vs. Cumulate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Accumulate and Cumulate
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Accumulate
To gather or cause to increase; amass
We accumulated enough wood for a fire. Nearly all bank accounts accumulate interest.
Cumulate
To gather in a heap; accumulate.
Accumulate
To be the site for (a gradually increasing mass), especially as a result of disuse or neglect
Those old books are accumulating dust.
Cumulate
To combine into one unit; merge.
Accumulate
To mount or pile up; increase
Snow is accumulating on the roads.
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Cumulate
To become massed.
Accumulate
(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
Cumulate
Having cumulated or having been cumulated; heaped up or amassed.
Accumulate
(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
Cumulate
(transitive) To accumulate; to amass.
Accumulate
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
Cumulate
(intransitive) To be accumulated.
Accumulate
Collected; accumulated.
Cumulate
Accumulated, agglomerated, amassed
Accumulate
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
Cumulate
(geology) An igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.
Accumulate
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
Cumulate
To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.
Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap.
Accumulate
Collected; accumulated.
Cumulate
Collect or gather;
Journals are accumulating in my office
The work keeps piling up
Accumulate
Get or gather together;
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
She rolled up a small fortune
Accumulate
Collect or gather;
Journals are accumulating in my office
The work keeps piling up
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