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Definition of Accretes
1. accrete [v] - See also: accrete
Lexicographical Neighbors of Accretes
Literary usage of Accretes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Revised Settlement of the Jhang District of the Punjab, 1874-1880 by E. B. Steedman (1882)
"... been done I do not suppose that when land actually accretes in places where
... and subsequently land accretes on the site of such land, it will be the ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... brown, town, shower, dowry ; but in others, as loin, bestow, snow, grow,
below, [ao-] is the vowel, to which [h'] accretes before a following consonant. ..."
3. Popular Science Monthly (1906)
"... and transmits its mental characteristics, little altered, to the next generation.
The city community, on the other hand, accretes largely from without. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Constitutional tradition is strong, and power accretes to regular governments
even when supported only by a minority. ..."
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