accroître — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accrue verb To increase, to rise
- augment verb To make something larger or stronger by adding to it.
- enhance verb To improve the quality, value, or appeal of something.
- enlarge verb To make something bigger, or to become bigger.
- grow verb To increase in size, amount, or extent over time.
- increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
Senses
accroître is used for these senses in English:
- accrue (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- augment (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- enhance To augment or make something greater.
- enlarge (transitive) To make (something) larger.
- grow (transitive) To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
- increase (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
- step up (transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.
accrue — full definition
- verb To increase, to rise
- verb To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
- verb To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
- verb To accumulate.