Crossword clues for accruing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accrue \Ac*crue"\ ([a^]k*kr[udd]"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Accrued; p. pr. & vb. n. Accruing.] [See Accrue, n., and cf. Accresce, Accrete.]
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To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did accrue.
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To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. ``Interest accrues to principal.''
--Abbott.The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press.
--Junius.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of accrue English)
Usage examples of "accruing".
Malipiero would often inquire from me what advantages were accruing to me from the welcome I received at the hands of the respectable ladies I had become acquainted with at his house, taking care to tell me, before I could have time to answer, that they were all endowed with the greatest virtue, and that I would give everybody a bad opinion of myself, if I ever breathed one word of disparagement to the high reputation they all enjoyed.