Accrue

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment: interest accruing in my savings account.
  • verb-intransitive. To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth: common sense that accrues with experience.
  • verb-intransitive. To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.
  • v. To accumulate over time: I have accrued 15 days of sick leave.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • v. To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  • v. To become an enforceable and permanent right.
  • n. Something that accrues; advantage accruing
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To increase; to augment.
  • verb-intransitive. To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
  • n. Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. An accession; addition; reinforcement.
  • n. A loop or stitch forming an extra mesh in network.
  • To grow; increase; augment.
  • To happen or result as a natural growth; come or fall as an addition or increment, as of profit or loss, advantage or damage; arise in due course: as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; the natural increase accrues to the common benefit.
  • In law, to become a present and enforcible right or demand.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. come into the possession of
  • v. grow by addition
  • Antonym
    amortize   
    Verb Form
    accrued    accrues    accruing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    accrued    accruing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    increase    augment    arise    come    grow    inure    enure    redound    vest    mature   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baku    Blue    Cebu    Chengdu    Chou    Chu    Crewe    Drew    Ewe    Few