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Verb: add up
  1. To measure up to in kind or quality
    - come, amount
     
  2. Determine the sum of
    "add up all the people in this town to those of the neighbouring town";
    - total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally
     
  3. Add up in number or quantity
    "The bill added up to $2,000";
    - total, number, come, amount
     
  4. Be reasonable, logical or comprehensible
    - make sense

Derived forms: adds up, added up, adding up

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