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adds up to

adds up to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of add up to.

Meaning of add up to

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To have a particular effect in combination.
    • The costs of all the parts added up to five times the cost of the car.

Questions about adds up to

What is adds up to the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adds up to is the third-person singular simple present indicative of add up to.

Words near adds up to in the dictionary

  1. adds on
  2. adds one's twopenn'orth
  3. adds salt to injury
  4. adds to the list
  5. adds up
  6. adds up to
  7. adds value
  8. Addu
  9. addubitation
  10. addubitations
  11. adducable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adds up to (page history and authors); add up to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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