 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
accrue
verb
1: grow by addition; "The interest accrues"
2: come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the
oldest son" [syn: {fall}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accrue \Ac*crue"\ ([a^]k*kr[udd]"), verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p.
{Accrued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accruing}.] [See {Accrue}, noun,
and cf. {Accresce}, {Accrete}.]
1. To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did accrue.
--Spenser.
2. 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.
''Interest accrues to principal.'' --Abbott.
The great and essential advantages accruing to
society from the freedom of the press. --Junius.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Accrue \Ac*crue"\, noun [F. accr[^u], OF. acre["u], p. p. of
accroitre, OF. acroistre to increase; L. ad + crescere to
increase. Cf. {Accretion}, {Crew}. See {Crescent}.]
Something that accrues; advantage accruing. [Obs.]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "accrue":
accrue from, accrue to, accumulate, advance, appreciate,
arise from, balloon, be contingent on, be due to, be received,
bloat, boom, breed, broaden, bud from, come from, come in,
come out of, come to hand, crescendo, depend on, derive from,
descend from, develop, emanate from, emerge from, ensue from,
fall due, fall to one, flow from, follow from, gain, gain strength,
germinate from, get ahead, go up, grow, grow from, grow out of,
hang on, hinge on, increase, intensify, issue from, mature, mount,
multiply, originate in, proceed from, proliferate, rise, run up,
shoot up, snowball, spread, spring from, sprout from, stem from,
strengthen, swell, turn on, wax, widen
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