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Webster 1913 Edition


Accrue

Ac-crue′

(ăk-krṳ′)
,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Accrued
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Accruing
.]
[See
Accrue
,
Noun.
,
and cf
.
Accresce
,
Accrete
.]
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.

Ac-crue′

,
Noun.
[F.
accrû
, OF.
acreü
, p. p. of
accroitre
, OF.
acroistre
to increase; L.
ad
+
crescere
to increase. Cf.
Accretion
,
Crew
. See
Crescent
.]
Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Accrue

ACCRUE

,
Verb.
I.
accru'. [L. accresco, cresco.]
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.
accru'. Something that accedes to, or follows the property of another. Obs.

Definition 2024


accrue

accrue

English

Verb

accrue (third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued)

  1. (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
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Antonyms

Translations

Noun

accrue (plural accrues)

  1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

French

Noun

accrue f (plural accrues)

  1. dry land created by draining

Verb

accrue

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of accroître