accrete

[ uh-kreet ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

, ac·cret·ed, ac·cret·ing.

, ac·cret·ed, ac·cret·ing.

accrete

/ əˈkriːt /

Origin of accrete¹

First recorded in 1775–85; back formation from accretion

Origin of accrete¹

C18: back formation from accretion

It will leave the ACA intact, as is, to accrete interest group support until reform becomes all-but-impossible.

Why should trifles accrete to an ancient and hideous memory until it became a corporeal, living, malignant thing?

And as I continued to do this these fantasias began to accrete more and more about the figure of Derwent Rose.

The result of our education is to fill the mind little by little, as experiences accrete, with a stock of such ideas.

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