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UK
/ɐkɹˈiːt/
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VERB
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grow together (of plants and organs)
After many years the rose bushes grew together -
grow or become attached by accretion
The story accreted emotion
How To Use accrete In A Sentence
- Even ‘busy’ surgeons may take a long time to accrete enough performance data to allow valid comparison with their peers, particularly in low volume specialties such as neurosurgery.
- The vent site was then translated northeastward by the motion of the Farallon Plate and was subsequently accreted to its present location.
- We are reverting to the civilization of luggage, and historians of the future will note how the middle classes accrete possessions without taking root in the earth, and may find in this the secret of their imaginative poverty.
- They are also surrounded by a reservoir of fuel which allows them to accrete material right up to the Eddington Limit.
- An unassuming but apparently magical dry-erase board accretes a roster of chores throughout the week.
- Eugene, this post demonstrates the very real conflict between the First Amendment and the speech-as-violation jurisprudence that has accreted under Title VII and similar laws. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anonymous Comments and Modern Tort Law and Antidiscrimination Law
- When the arcs accreted to the continental margin, the Main Uralian Thrust and Deevo Thrust were active simultaneously, probably causing uplift of the arc material between them.
- In the last ten years, it has accreted features and has become one of the most sophisticated calendar programs I've seen.
- Grabbed by a temporary touchdown and then moving upward as ice is accreted from below and ablated from above. Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island « Climate Audit
- The kids are born relatively normal, but as they go through life bone accretes all over them such that they can no longer move.