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accrete

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1. accrete - Adjective

2. accrete - Verb

Meaning

To grow together.

To adhere; to grow (to); to be added; -- with to.

To make adhere; to add.

Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

Grown together.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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When we sit down to work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete. Steven Pressfield

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete. Steven Pressfield

The story accreted emotion Source: Internet

After many years the rose bushes grew together Source: Internet

As a result, the white dwarf will steadily accrete matter from the companion's outer atmosphere; the white dwarf consists of degenerate matter, so the accreted hydrogen does not inflate as its temperature increases. Source: Internet

Between Mars and Jupiter, however, gravitational perturbations from Jupiter imbued the protoplanets with too much orbital energy for them to accrete into a planet. Source: Internet

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