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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine the sum of

Example:

Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town

Synonyms:

add; add together; add up; sum; sum up; summate; tally; tot; tot up; total; tote up

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Verb group:

add; add together (make an addition by combining numbers)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be reasonable or logical or comprehensible

Synonyms:

add up; make sense

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
It ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 3

Meaning:

Develop into

Example:

nothing came of his grandiose plans

Synonyms:

add up; amount; come

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

become; turn (undergo a change or development)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

aggregate (amount in the aggregate to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Add up in number or quantity

Example:

The bill came to $2,000

Synonyms:

add up; amount; come; number; total

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "add up" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "add up"):

work out (be calculated)

outnumber (be larger in number)

average; average out (amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain)

make (add up to)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

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