Accretion vs. Accrue — What's the Difference?

Growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion, or inclusion.

To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment

Something contributing to such growth or increase

To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth

(Biology) The growing together or adherence of parts that are normally separate.

To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.

Slow addition to land by deposition of water-borne sediment.

To accumulate over time

An increase of land along the shores of a body of water, as by alluvial deposit.

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

(Astronomy) An increase in the mass of a celestial object by its gravitational capture of surrounding interstellar material.

(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.

The act of increasing by natural growth; especially the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition.

(transitive) To accumulate.

Something added externally to promote the external growth of an item.

To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Concretion; coherence of separate particles.

(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

(biology) A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

To increase; to augment.

(geology) The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.

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.

(legal) The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

(legal) Gain to an heir or legatee; failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share percentage.

Grow by addition;

(astrophysics) The formation of planets and other bodies by collection of material through gravity.

Come into the possession of;

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.

Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or soil from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

An increase by natural growth or addition

Something contributing to growth or increase;

(astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases

(biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles

(geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or water-borne sediment

(law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)