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Webster 1913 Edition
Accrue
Ac-crue′
(ăk-krṳ′)
, Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accrued
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Accruing
.] 1.
To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did
accrue
. Spenser.
2.
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.
“Interest accrues to principal.” Abbott.
The great and essential advantages
accruing
to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.
Webster 1828 Edition
Accrue
ACCRUE
,Verb.
I.
Literally, to grow to; hence to arise, proceed or come; to be added, as increase, profit or damage; as, a profit accrues to government from the coinage of copper; a loss accrues from the coinage of gold and silver.
ACCRUE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
accrue
accrue
English
Verb
accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)
- (intransitive) 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 - Edmund Spenser
- Interest accrues to principal - Abbott
- The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press - Junius
- (intransitive, 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.
- (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
Antonyms
- (accounting): amortize
Translations
increase
|
to be incurred as a result of the passage of time
Noun
accrue (plural accrues)
- (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing