accrete

1. 1.

   grow together (of plants and organs)

   “After many years the rose bushes grew together”

   Broaderblend

   plant

2. 2.

   grow or become attached by accretion

   “The story accreted emotion”

   Broaderaccumulate

Other forms of accrete

past tense

accreted·

present participle

accreting·

third person

accretes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about accrete

What does accrete mean?

accrete means "grow together (of plants and organs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in accrete?

accrete has 2 syllables: ac-crete. The stress falls on "crete".

Is accrete a common word?

accrete is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.