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accrementitial |
accrementition |
accresce |
accrescence |
accrescent |
accrete
| accretion
| accretionary
| accretive
| accriminate
| accroach
accrete
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb accrete has 2 senses
- accrete(v = verb.change) Array - grow together (of plants and organs); "After many years the rose bushes grew together" is one way to blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conflate, flux, fuse, immix, meld, merge, mix
- accrete(v = verb.change) Array - grow or become attached by accretion; "The story accreted emotion" is one way to accumulate, amass, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, pile up
Derived form adjective accretive1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
Derived forms noun accretion1, noun accretion4, adjective accretive1
Sample sentence:
Something ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
accrete, v. i. [From L. accretus, p. p. of accrescere to increase.].
- To grow together. [1913 Webster]
- To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to. [1913 Webster]
accrete, v. t.
To make adhere; to add. Earle. [1913 Webster]
accrete, a.
- Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter. [1913 Webster]
- Grown together. Gray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
accrete, v.
1 intr. grow together or into one.
2 intr. (often foll. by to) form round or on, as round a nucleus.
3 tr. attract (such additions).
1 intr. grow together or into one.
2 intr. (often foll. by to) form round or on, as round a nucleus.
3 tr. attract (such additions).
Etymology
L accrescere (as AC-, crescere cret- grow)
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