Accrue vs Aggrandize - What's the difference?
accrue | aggrandize |
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-
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
In lang=en terms the difference between accrue and aggrandize
is that 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 while aggrandize is to increase or become great.As verbs the difference between accrue and aggrandize
is that 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 while aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase.As a noun accrue
is (obsolete) something that accrues; advantage accruing.accrue
English
(wikipedia accrue)Verb
(accru)- The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
Antonyms
* (accounting) amortizeNoun
(en noun)aggrandize
English
Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
