accrete

About 0.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To grow together, combine; to fuse.

   Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.

2. verb To adhere; to grow or to be added to gradually.
3. verb To make adhere; to add; to make larger or more, as by growing.
4. adjective Characterized by accretion; made up.

   accrete matter

5. adjective Grown together.

Similar words

concrete associate combine amalgamate aggregate agglutinate join coalesce cement together commerge

Often followed by

to onto into and in the at a matter

Word family

accreted accretes accreting