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Recieve vs Accrue - What's the difference?

recieve | accrue |

As verbs the difference between recieve and accrue

is that recieve is 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 a noun accrue is

(obsolete) something that accrues; advantage accruing.

recieve

English

Verb

(head)
  • 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-