Accumulate vs Cumulate - What's the difference?
accumulate | cumulate |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
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. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
In transitive terms the difference between accumulate and cumulate
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while cumulate is to accumulate; to amass.In intransitive terms the difference between accumulate and cumulate
is that accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly while cumulate is to be accumulated.As a noun cumulate is
an igneous rock formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.accumulate
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Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
