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Verb: add up
  1. Determine the sum of
    "You need to add up all the items on the receipt";
    - total, tot [Brit, informal], tot up [Brit, informal], sum, sum up, summate [rare], add, add together, tally
     
  2. Equal a particular sum or quantity when calculated or combined
    "The bill added up to $2,000";
    - total, number, come, amount, come to
     
  3. Be reasonable, logical, or comprehensible
    "His explanation finally added up to me";
    - make sense
     
  4. To measure up to in kind or quality
    "His credentials just don't add up to what we're looking for";
    - come, amount

Derived forms: adds up, adding up, added up

Type of: be, become, count, enumerate, exist, number, numerate, turn