acrue

Verb

accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)

1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
   • And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   rise

2. (intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
   • Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
3. (intransitive) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
   • The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
4. (transitive) To accumulate.
   • He has accrued nine sick days.

   Synonyms:

   add up

5. (intransitive) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

   Synonyms:

   inure

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