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Verb: accrete  u'kreet
  1. Grow together (of plants and organs)
    "The branches had accreted into a tangled mass";
    - grow together
     
  2. Grow or become attached by accretion
    "The story accreted emotion"

Derived forms: accreted, accretes, accreting

Type of: accumulate, amass, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, conglomerate, cumulate, fuse, gather, immix [archaic], meld, merge, mix, pile up

Encyclopedia: Accrete