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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

  1. verb To increase, to rise
  2. 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.
  3. verb To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  4. verb To accumulate.

double down — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. phrasal verb In blackjack, to double your original stake in exchange for exactly one more card.

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