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The evidence to the contrary continues to accrete, yet Palestinian genocidal threats, and similar threats from their supporters in Iran, Hezbollah,

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  1. transitive verb To make larger or greater, as by increased growth.
  2. intransitive verb To grow together; fuse.
  3. intransitive verb To grow or increase gradually, as by addition.

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  • He calls this "small" happiness -- happinesses that once you know how to recognize, capture and experience them, accrete, thereby becoming "true" happiness that endures over time.
  • The evidence to the contrary continues to accrete, yet Palestinian genocidal threats, and similar threats from their supporters in Iran, Hezbollah, —  Sigmund, Carl and Alfred
  • And justifiably - there was very little additional power being devolved to them and to all intents and purposes they appeared to be designed to accrete more power from lower level tiers of government like counties and districts. —  Jock's Place
  • °C, they fold into seeds and tiles, and then begin to accrete together into the much larger structure. —  the Foresight Institute
  • "It's not just that we've only had so much time since the universe formed for black holes to accrete matter and grow as large as the biggest ones are now," says Priyamvada Natarajan, an associate professor of astronomy at Yale University currently on fellowship at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
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  1. Back-formation from accretion.

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  1. from Latin accretus, past participle or accrescere: see accresce.
  2. from Latin accretus, past participle of accrescere: see accresce.
 

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