acrecentarse — meaning in English
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English meaning
- accrue verb To increase, to rise
- double down phrasal verb To commit even more firmly to a position, strategy or claim, especially after it has been criticised or has started to go wrong.
- increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
Senses
acrecentarse is used for these senses in English:
- accrue (intransitive) To increase, to rise
- double down (intransitive, figurative, by extension) To significantly increase a risk, investment, or other commitment; to respond to a challenge (e.g. to an opinion) by reinforcing or extending one's position rather than moderating it. [with on ‘something’]
- increase (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten.
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.
double down — full definition
- phrasal verb To commit even more firmly to a position, strategy or claim, especially after it has been criticised or has started to go wrong.
- phrasal verb In blackjack, to double your original stake in exchange for exactly one more card.