Crossword-Solution: ACCRETION
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Accretion | n. | The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth. |
| Accretion | n. | The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth. |
| Accretion | n. | Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. |
| Accretion | n. | A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers toes. |
| Accretion | n. | The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. |
| Accretion | n. | Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ACCRETION | anagram | ANORECTIC |
We have 30 clues for the answer “ACCRETION”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Process of growth | 1 answer |
| Growth by gradual accumulation | 1 answer |
| GROWING of separate things into one | 1 answer |
| ADHESION of extraneous matter | 1 answer |
| ACCUMULATION of deposits | 1 answer |
| acquirement | 8 answers |
| AN INCREASE IN A BENEFICIARY'S SHARE IN AN ESTATE | 11 answers |
| Increment | 23 answers |
| MONEY coming in | 26 answers |
| augmentation | 38 answers |
| enlargement | 49 answers |
| Growth ___ | 51 answers |
| Acquisition. | 53 answers |
| Adjunct | 57 answers |
| Accession | 60 answers |
| Headway | 63 answers |
| Collection | 65 answers |
| appendage | 66 answers |
| BUNCH ___ | 72 answers |
| ACCESSORY ___ | 74 answers |
| expansion | 75 answers |
| Build up | 76 answers |
| Addition | 76 answers |
| Miscellany | 76 answers |
| Gain | 81 answers |
| Multitude | 83 answers |
| Meeting | 84 answers |
| Raise | 87 answers |
| Increase | 88 answers |
| Accumulation | 89 answers |
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Sentences with ACCRETION (5)
The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.
The city, as I saw it during that night walk, was no longer the old capital that I had known, the just accretion of the ages, the due admixture of comfort and splendour.
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her from a plump active little woman with a neatly-turned foot and ankle into something as vast and august as a natural phenomenon.
The importance of these structures as the foci of nervous and mental activities has been recognized more and more with each new accretion of knowledge, and the efforts to fathom the secrets of their intimate structure has been unceasing.
Very slowly the accretion of these new forces, chemical and mechanical, grew in volume until they acquired sufficient mass to take the place of the old religious science, substituting their attraction for the attractions of the Civitas Dei, but the process remained the same.
Quotes with ACCRETION (3)
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding.
It was my first-year Latin teacher in high school who made me who made me discover I'd fallen in love with it (grammar). It took Latin to thrust me into bona fide alliance with words in their true meaning. Learning Latin fed my love for words upon words in continuation and modification, and the beautiful, sober, accretion of a sentence. I could see the achieved sentence finally standing there, as real, intact, and built to stay as the Mississippi State Capitol at the top of my street.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1973).