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Accrue vs Amass - What's the difference?

accrue | amass |

In obsolete terms the difference between accrue and amass

is that accrue is something that accrues; advantage accruing while amass is a mass; a heap.

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-

    amass

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate.
    • to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases
  • * 1887 , , A Study in Scarlet , Part II, Chapter V, page 123:
    • he reluctantly returned to the old Nevada mines, there to recruit his health and to amass money enough to allow him to pursue his object without privation.

    Synonyms

    * accumulate, heap up, pile

    Noun

    (es)
  • (obsolete) A mass; a heap.
  • * Thomas Pownall
    • a general idea of an amass of arms
    (Webster 1913)

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