cumulate
Gather into piles
Cumulate means to gather or pile up, to accumulate.
The word appears most often in technical contexts—statistics, geology, finance—where cumulate serves as both verb and adjective: cumulate voting allows shareholders to pool votes for a single candidate; cumulate rocks form from minerals settling in layers.
In everyday speech, accumulate has largely displaced it.
Collect in quantity
- stockpileAccumulated reserve supply
- accrueIncrease by addition
- compileCollect into unified whole
- hoardHidden accumulated valuables
heap · pile · buildup · aggregate · consolidate · concentrate · increase · escalate
Bring items together
- assembleJoin parts together
- congregateGather as a group
- conveneFormally gather together
- marshalArrange in proper order
corral · garner · rally · harvest · roundup · muster · pool · centralize
Concealed storage spot
- stashHidden reserve
- reserveSupply kept back
- stockpileAccumulated reserve supply
- repositoryPlace for storing things
reservoir · inventory · arsenal · backlog · savings · treasure · hoard · squirrel away
Increase in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- increaseGrowth in amount
- surgeSudden powerful increase
upswing · boom · multiplication · advancement · progression · development · enhancement · augmentation
amass
Collect in quantity
hoard · heap · pile · buildup · aggregate · consolidate · concentrate · increase · escalate · augment
collect
Bring items together
- assembleJoin parts together
- congregateGather as a group
- conveneFormally gather together
marshal · corral · garner · rally · harvest · roundup · muster · pool · centralize · bring together
cache
Concealed storage spot
repository · reservoir · inventory · arsenal · backlog · savings · treasure · hoard · squirrel away · bank
expansion
Increase in scope
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- escalationProgressive increase in intensity
- increaseGrowth in amount
surge · upswing · boom · multiplication · advancement · progression · development · enhancement · augmentation · enlargement
- rock texturescoarse-grained, fine-grained, grainy, gritty, massive
cumulatedisperse
Cause to spread apart
scatter · dissipate · disseminate · distribute · spread
- cumulative effectCombined result over time
- cumulative GPACombined academic score
- cumulative examTest covering all topics
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