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Accumulate vs Accrue - What's the difference?

accumulate | accrue |

In intransitive terms the difference between accumulate and accrue

is that accumulate is to grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly 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 verbs the difference between accumulate and accrue

is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass 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 accumulate

is collected; accumulated.

As a noun accrue is

something that accrues; advantage accruing.

accumulate

English

Verb

(accumulat)
  • To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
    • He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
  • To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
  • * Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -

    • Synonyms

    * collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferate

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.

    • Related terms

    * accumulation * accumulator * cumulus

    External links

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    accrue

    English

    (wikipedia accrue)

    Verb

    (accru)
  • 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.
    • The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
  • (legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

    • Antonyms

    * (accounting) amortize

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
    • English words prefixed with ad-