Accrete
to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to).
to add, as by growth.
botany. grown together.
contemporary examples
it will leave the aca intact, as is, to accrete interest group support until reform becomes all-but-impossible.
after the gop fails to repeal obamacare david frum february 3, 2012
historical examples
and as i continued to do this these fantasias began to accrete more and more about the figure of derwent rose.
the tower of oblivion oliver onions
verb
to grow or cause to grow together; be or become fused
to make or become bigger, as by addition
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to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to). to add, as by growth. botany. grown together. historical examples it must run on at any rate for some years longer before it shall have accreted a convincing weight. human personality and its survival of bodily death frederick w. h. myers we have the richest language that […]
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- Accretion
an increase by natural growth or by gradual external addition; growth in size or extent. the result of this process. an added part; addition: the last part of the legend is a later accretion. the growing together of separate parts into a single whole. law. increase of property by gradual natural additions, as of land […]
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- Accretionary growth
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