ACCRUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does accrue mean? 

• ACCRUE (verb)
  The verb ACCRUE has 2 senses:

1. grow by addition

2. come into the possession of

  Familiarity information: ACCRUE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACCRUE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they accrue    ... he / she / it accrues   
Past simple: accrued   
Past participle: accrued   
-ing form: accruing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow by addition

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The interest accrues

Hypernyms (to "accrue" is one way to...):

increase (become bigger or greater in amount)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "accrue"):

redound (contribute)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

accrual; accruement (the act of accumulating)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Come into the possession of

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accrue; fall

Context example:

The house accrued to the oldest son

Hypernyms (to "accrue" is one way to...):

change hands; change owners (be transferred to another owner)

Verb group:

devolve; fall; pass; return (be inherited by)

fall; light (fall to somebody by assignment or lot)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

accrual (the act of accumulating)

 Context examples 

A sponsor-approved waiver is necessary when a subject fails to meet enrollment criteria, but wishes to be accrued to the trial.

(Eligibility Waiver, NCI Thesaurus)

A range of integers specifying the minimum and maximum number of subjects to be accrued for the epoch.

(Epoch Target Accrual Number Range, NCI Thesaurus)

A range of integers specifying the minimum and maximum number of subjects to be accrued per a specified amount of time.

(Periodic Target Accrual Number, NCI Thesaurus)

A range of integers specifying the minimum and maximum number of subjects to be accrued for the planned activity.

(Planned Activity Target Accrual Number Range, NCI Thesaurus)

NOTE(S): This may represent the minimum number of subjects needed to support data analysis and/or the maximum number of subjects that may be accrued to this arm.

(Arm Target Accrual Number Range, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A range of integers specifying the minimum and maximum number of subjects to be accrued for the arm.

(Arm Target Accrual Number Range, NCI Thesaurus)

What I want is, that you should write to your sisters and tell them of the fortune that has accrued to them.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The better you do, the more money will accrue to you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively, without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind;—but when a beginning is made—when the felicities of rapid motion have once been, though slightly, felt—it must be a very heavy set that does not ask for more.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On being informed of the invitation, Mrs. Dashwood, persuaded that such an excursion would be productive of much amusement to both her daughters, and perceiving through all her affectionate attention to herself, how much the heart of Marianne was in it, would not hear of their declining the offer upon HER account; insisted on their both accepting it directly; and then began to foresee, with her usual cheerfulness, a variety of advantages that would accrue to them all, from this separation.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)