OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 981

accrue

/əˈkɹuː/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
acrecentarse • acrecer • acrecerse • aumentar • aumentarse
To increase, to rise
And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
devengar
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
acumular
To accumulate.
He has accrued nine sick days.
We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part, In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart, Which to that other Mortal shall accrew, Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
adquirir
To become an enforceable and permanent right.