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accrue

verb as in increase by addition or growth, often financial

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The fines accrue thousands of dollars in interest every week.

You have to accrue power, use it in ethical ways, and hope that voters reward you for doing this.

Makes your kids want to do their chores, by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.

Makes your kids want to do their chores by allowing them to purchase prizes with the points they accrue.

And Blizzard takes a 15% cut of the real-money transactions; the commissions that used to flow to eBay now accrue to them.

From this time, by the help of these machines, immense and incalculable riches will accrue to the nation.

Other cases may occur, in which great advantage would accrue, if the principle were once admitted.

No possible benefit could accrue to Sylvia from a disclosure of his suspicion that he had borne the letter to her grandfather.

His excellency also referred to the advantages which would accrue from the establishment of an agricultural society.

The only gain that would accrue from his confession would be, he considered, a subjective gain to himself.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to accrue, such as: accumulate, amass, collect, enlarge, flow, and gather.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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