What is the difference between accrete and accrue?
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To grow together, combine; to fuse.
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To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.
(botany) Grown together
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To increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.
* And though power failed, her courage did accrue -
* Interest accrues to principal - Abbott
* The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press - Junius
(accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
(legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
English words prefixed with ad-
In intransitive terms the difference between accrete and accrue
is that accrete is to adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually while accrue is to increase, to augment; to come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.As an adjective accrete
is characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.As a noun accrue is
something that accrues; advantage accruing.accrete
English
Verb
(accret)- Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion billion years ago.
- (Earle)
Usage notes
* (to fuse) Used with the word to .Adjective
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(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.