Associations to the word «Accrue»

Wiktionary

ACCRUE, verb. (intransitive) To increase, to augment; 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.
ACCRUE, verb. (intransitive) (accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
ACCRUE, verb. (intransitive) (legal) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
ACCRUE, noun. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

Dictionary definition

ACCRUE, verb. Grow by addition; "The interest accrues".
ACCRUE, verb. Come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King