ACCRETE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they accrete ... he / she / it accretes

Past simple: accreted

Past participle: accreted

-ing form: accreting

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grow or become attached by accretion

Example:

The story accreted emotion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accrete" is one way to...):

accumulate; amass; conglomerate; cumulate; gather; pile up (collect or gather)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

accretion (an increase by natural growth or addition)

accretion ((biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles)

accretive (growing by accretion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grow together (of plants and organs)

Example:

After many years the rose bushes grew together

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "accrete" is one way to...):

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

Domain category:

flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

accretive (growing by accretion)

Credits

Context examples:

"We're seeing an object that was able to accrete hydrogen from the protoplanetary disk but didn't run away to become a hot Jupiter," said Benneke.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

This would allow the neutron star to continue accreting material while still generating high levels of brightness.

(NuSTAR Helps Find Universe's Brightest Pulsars, NASA)

The planet orbits very close to the star and is far less massive than Jupiter - 318 times Earth's mass - but has managed to accrete the primordial hydrogen/helium atmosphere that is largely 'unpolluted' by heavier elements, said Björn Benneke of the University of Montreal in Canada.