Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to accrue
Participle: accrued
Gerund: accruing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | accrue |
| you | accrue |
| he;she;it | accrues |
| we | accrue |
| you | accrue |
| they | accrue |
Perfect
| I | have accrued |
| you | have accrued |
| he;she;it | has accrued |
| we | have accrued |
| you | have accrued |
| they | have accrued |
Past
| I | accrued |
| you | accrued |
| he;she;it | accrued |
| we | accrued |
| you | accrued |
| they | accrued |
Pluperfect
| I | had accrued |
| you | had accrued |
| he;she;it | had accrued |
| we | had accrued |
| you | had accrued |
| they | had accrued |
Future
| I | will accrue |
| you | will accrue |
| he;she;it | will accrue |
| we | will accrue |
| you | will accrue |
| they | will accrue |
Future Perfect
| I | will have accrued |
| you | will have accrued |
| he;she;it | will have accrued |
| we | will have accrued |
| you | will have accrued |
| they | will have accrued |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | accrue |
| you | accrue |
| he;she;it | accrue |
| we | accrue |
| you | accrue |
| they | accrue |
Perfect
| I | have accrued |
| you | have accrued |
| he;she;it | have accrued |
| we | have accrued |
| you | have accrued |
| they | have accrued |
Imperfect
| I | accrued |
| you | accrued |
| he;she;it | accrued |
| we | accrued |
| you | accrued |
| they | accrued |
Pluperfect
| I | had accrued |
| you | had accrued |
| he;she;it | had accrued |
| we | had accrued |
| you | had accrued |
| they | had accrued |
Conditional
Present
| I | would accrue |
| you | would accrue |
| he;she;it | would accrue |
| we | would accrue |
| you | would accrue |
| they | would accrue |
Perfect
| I | would have accrued |
| you | would have accrued |
| he;she;it | would have accrued |
| we | would have accrued |
| you | would have accrued |
| they | would have accrued |
Imperative
| you | accrue |
| we | Let's accrue |
| you | accrue |
Verbs conjugated like 'accrue'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'accrue'
accede,
accite,
accrete,
accrew,
accurse,
accuse,
accable,
acceed,
accend,
accent,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- increase
- increase
- accumulate
- collect, gather, increase, amass
- to collect in an increasing amount over time
- accumulate, add up, amound, garner, gather, heap up, mount up, stack up
Antonyms
- accumulate
- scatter, disperse, divide, dissipate
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1440, from O.Fr.
acreue "growth, increase," from
acreu, pp. of
acreistre "to increase," from L.
accrescere (see accretion).
2. First attested in mid 15th century. From Middle English acrewen, borrowed from Old French acreüe, past participle of accreistre (“to increase”), from Latin accrēsco (“increase”), from ad (“in addition”) + crēscō (“to grow”). Compare accrete. See: Middle English '
acrewen', Latin '
accrēsco'.
Verbs referencing "accrue"
Spanish
acrecer.
Sample Sentences
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And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue [1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
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Environmental benefits that accrue to the area.
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1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
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Interest accrues to principal.
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The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press [1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface:]
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The abolition of exploitation meant, in his view, not that workers should receive the equivalent of what they produced, but that the surplus value they do not receive in wages should accrue to society in the form of fresh investments, emergency reserves, payment for necessary 'unproductive' services, administration, etc., plus provision for those unable to work. [1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: powstanie (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 333:]
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The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
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He has accrued nine sick days.
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We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part,
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In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart,
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Which to that other Mortal shall accrew,
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Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew. [1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew]