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De - Pt| English Dictionary: accruing | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Accrue \Ac*crue"\ ([acr]k*kr[udd]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Accrued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accruing}.] [See {Accrue}, n., 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. [bd]Interest accrues to principal.[b8] --Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. --Junius. | |
