Usually means: Grow gradually through external addition.
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  1. accresce: Merriam-Webster
  2. accresce: Wordnik
  3. accresce: Wiktionary
  4. Accresce: Dictionary.com
  5. Accresce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. accresce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Accresce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. accresce: FreeDictionary.org
  9. accresce: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. accresce: Merriam-Webster

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▸ verb:  (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
▸ verb:  (Early Modern, obsolete, intransitive) To increase; to grow.

Similar:
accrue, acrue, reaccrue, make, accumulate, accrease, gain, accelerate, increase, aggrandize, more...

Opposite:
decrease, diminish, dwindle, decline

Types:
grow, increase, expand, proliferate, multiply, bloom, flourish, thrive, teem, more...

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Similar:
accrue, acrue, reaccrue, make, accumulate, accrease, gain, accelerate, increase, aggrandize, more...

Opposite:
decrease, diminish, dwindle, decline

Types:
grow, increase, expand, proliferate, multiply, bloom, flourish, thrive, teem, more...



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