tumulate

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tumulate

/ˈtʃuːmjʊleɪt/ UK
/ˈtjuːmjʊleɪt/ UK
/ˈtumjəleɪt/ US

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From Latin tumulātus (whence -ate), from tumulāre (“cover with a mound, bury, entomb”).

verb tumulates · tumulating · tumulated

archaic, transitive To swell. But when he considers the instruments , his heart begins to rise , and his paſſions to tumulate and ferment into a storm
transitive To cover (a corpse, etc.) with a mound or tomb; to bury.

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@misc{tumulate_2026,
  title = {tumulate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tumulate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}