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accrease

accrease verb: to increase.

Verb

accrease (third-person singular simple present accreases, present participle accreasing, simple past and past participle accreased)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) To increase.

Noun

accrease (plural accreases)

  1. (Early, Modern, obsolete) An increase.
    • For then we shal have worke sufficient, without any more accrease.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 34

Forms of accrease

Verb
third-person singular presentaccreases
present participleaccreasing
past participleaccreased
pastaccreased
Noun
pluralaccreases

Origin of accrease

From Middle English acresen, accreesen, from Anglo-Norman, Old French acreistre, from Latin accrēscere, from ad- + crēscere (“to grow”). Doublet of accresce.

Questions about accrease

What does accrease mean?
Accrease means to increase.
What part of speech is accrease?
Accrease can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of accrease?
The past tense of accrease is accreased.

Words near accrease in the dictionary

  1. accpt.
  2. accpts.
  3. accra
  4. accras
  5. accrd
  6. accrease
  7. accreased
  8. accreases
  9. accreasing
  10. accredit
  11. accredit with

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