What is another word for accrue?

Pronunciation: [ɐkɹˈuː] (IPA)

Accrue is a verb that refers to the accumulation or gradual increase of something over time. Synonyms for accrue include accumulate, amass, gather, stack up, build up, grow, increase, multiply, and accrue interest. These words describe the same process of gaining more of something over time, often through consistent effort or natural processes. "Accumulate" suggests more intentional efforts to gather or collect something, while "amass" suggests a greater quantity or a sense of power or prestige associated with the growth. "Multiply" has mathematical connotations and implies exponential growth, while "accrue interest" specifically refers to the financial concept of earnings on an investment or loan.

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What are the opposite words for accrue?

Accrue is defined as the gradual accumulation of something over time, such as interest or benefits. Antonyms for accrue would, therefore, be words that represent a decrease or lack of accumulation. Examples include dissipate, spend, lose, decrease, diminish and dwindle. These words describe the opposite concept of accrue, indicating a reduction or dissipation of something over time. While accrue is usually associated with positive outcomes, such as income or opportunities, each of these words represents the negative consequences of not accruing or losing benefits. These antonyms remind us of the importance of accruing when possible and the potential loss when we don't.

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Usage examples for Accrue

"Delight a hundredfold" will accrue from this postponement-the contribution of every grain of sand through the hourglass, of "every span of shade" across the sundial, of every click in the watch, and each day's sun.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Now, the ill effects which issue from piecework combined with overtime could not accrue from piecework combined with shorter hours.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
She has chosen to sow her wild oats and to accrue her debts.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann

Famous quotes with Accrue

  • That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.
    William Thomas Green Morton
  • Maybe I couldn't make it. Maybe I don't have a pretty smile, good teeth, nice tits, long legs, a cheeky ass, a sexy voice. Maybe I don't know how to handle men and increase my market value, so that the rewards due to the feminine will accrue to me. Then again, maybe I'm sick of the masquerade. I'm sick of pretending eternal youth. I'm sick of belying my own intelligence, my own will, my own sex. I'm sick of peering at the world through false eyelashes, so everything I see is mixed with a shadow of bought hairs; I'm sick of weighting my head with a dead mane, unable to move my neck freely, terrified of rain, of wind, of dancing too vigorously in case I sweat into my lacquered curls. I'm sick of the Powder Room. I'm sick of pretending that some fatuous male's self-important pronouncements are the objects of my undivided attention, I'm sick of going to films and plays when someone else wants to, and sick of having no opinions of my own about either. I'm sick of being a transvestite. I refuse to be a female impersonator. I am a woman, not a castrate.
    Germaine Greer
  • It is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
    Marie Antoinette
  • Maybe knowledge doesn't accrue, maybe it doesn't happen sequentially. Maybe I need to go back and read Hunger of Memory again. Maybe there's a wisdom that I had in those years that I need to learn from now. And maybe there will be a year when I will have the courage to read that book. When I think about it or when I hear other people talk about it, it strikes me as very naked prose, and I'm embarrassed by it. I'm embarrassed by how much I told you. And people say, "Well you didn't tell us you were gay." Or "You didn't tell us you had all these friends or that you were student body president. You never said that." I think to myself, "My God, but what I told you I've never told anybody. And I'll never tell anybody again."
    Richard Rodriguez
  • 'Next morning the sun revealed a horrid spectacle on the vast plain south of PAnipat. On the actual field of the combat thirty-one distinct heaps of the slain were counted, the number of bodies in each ranging from 500 upwards to 1000 and in four up to 1500 a rough total of 28,000. In addition to these, the ditch round the Maratha camp was full of dead bodies, partly the victims of disease and famine during the long siege and partly wounded men who had crawled out of the fighting to die there. West and south of PAnipat city, the jungle and the road in the line of MarAtha retreat were littered with the remains of those who had fallen unresisting in the relentless DurrAni pursuit or from hunger and exhaustion. Their number - probably three-fourths non-combatants and one-fourth soldiers - could not have been far short of the vast total of those slain in the battlefield. 'The hundreds who lay down wounded, perished from the severity of the cold.'.... 'After the havoc of combat followed massacre in cold blood. Several hundreds of MarAthas had hidden themselves in the hostile city of PAnipat through folly or helplessness; and these were hunted out next day and put to the sword. According to one plausible account, the sons of Abdus Samad Khan and Mian Qutb received the DurrAni king's permission to avenge their father's death by an indiscriminate massacre of the MarAthas for one day, and in this way nearly nine thousand men perished [Bhau Bakhar, 123.]; these were evidently non-combatants. The eyewitness Kashiraj Pandit thus describes the scene: 'Every DurrAni soldier brought away a hundred or two of prisoners and slew them in the outskirts of their camp, crying out, When I started from our country, my mother, father, sister and wife told me to slay so may kAfirs for their sake after we had gained the victory in this holy war, so that the religious merit of this act [of infidel slaying] might accrue to them. In this way, thousands of soldiers and other persons were massacred. In the Shah's camp, except the quarters of himself and his nobles, every tent had a heap of severed heads before it. One may say that it was verily doomsday for the MarAtha people.'.... 158
    Ahmed Shah Durrani

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