accrue Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb grow by addition
    • The interest accrues
  2. verb come into the possession of
    fall.
    • The house accrued to the oldest son

WordNet

Ac*crue" intransitive verb
Etymology
See Accrue, n., and cf. Accresce, Accrete.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Accrued present participle & verbal noun Accruing
Definitions
  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. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott.
    The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.
Ac*crue" noun
Etymology
F. accrû, OF. acreü, p. p. of accroitre, OF. acroistre to increase; L. ad + crescere to increase. Cf. Accretion, Crew. See Crescent.
Definitions
  1. Something that accrues; advantage accruing. Obs.

Webster 1913