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add up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb add up has 4 senses
- add up(v = verb.stative) amount, come - develop into; "This idea will never amount to anything"; "nothing came of his grandiose plans" is one way to become, turn
- add up(v = verb.communication) add, add together, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up - determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" is one way to count, enumerate, number, numerate
- add up(v = verb.stative) amount, come, number, total - add up in number or quantity; "The bills amounted to $2,000"; "The bill came to $2,000" is one way to be
- add up(v = verb.stative) make sense - be reasonable or logical or comprehensible; Array is one way to be
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Something ----s something
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Something ----s something
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Something ----s something
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It ----s that CLAUSE
THESAURUS
add up
add up to, aggregate, aggregate to, amount to, be OK, be correct, be just right, be right, cast up, cipher up, come, come to, comprise, compute, contain, count up, detail, figure up, foot up, inventory, itemize, mount up to, number, recap, recapitulate, recite, reckon up, reckon up to, recount, rehearse, relate, run into, run to, score up, sum, sum up, summarize, summate, tally, tally up, tot, tot up, tot up to, total, total up, tote, tote up, tote up to, unitize
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