accretes

Verb

accrete (third-person singular simple present accretes, present participle accreting, simple past and past participle accreted)

1. (intransitive) To grow together, combine; to fuse.
   • Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.
2. (intransitive) To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
3. (transitive) To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
   • the reader has not only mastered this distinction , but that he has so thoroughly accreted it and assimilated it to his habits of mind1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue

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