added up

Verb

add up (third-person singular simple present adds up, present participle adding up, simple past and past participle added up)

1. (transitive) To take the sum of; to total.
   • Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.

   Synonyms:

   sum up, tally

2. (intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
   • If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.

   Synonyms:

   accrue, mount up

3. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
   • His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?

   Synonyms:

   compute, hang together, check out, make sense, track, figure