Accrue vs. Accumulate
Difference Between Accrue and Accumulate
Accrue➦
To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment
interest accruing in my savings account.
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Accumulate➦
To gather or cause to increase; amass
We accumulated enough wood for a fire. Nearly all bank accounts accumulate interest.
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Accrue➦
To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth
common sense that accrues with experience.
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Accumulate➦
To be the site for (a gradually increasing mass), especially as a result of disuse or neglect
Those old books are accumulating dust.
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Accrue➦
To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.
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Accumulate➦
To mount or pile up; increase
Snow is accumulating on the roads.
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Accrue➦
To accumulate over time
I have accrued 15 days of sick leave.
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Accumulate➦
(transitive) To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together (either literally or figuratively)
He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
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Accrue➦
(intransitive) To increase, to rise
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Accumulate➦
(intransitive) To gradually grow or increase in quantity or number.
With her company going bankrupt, her divorce, and a gambling habit, debts started to accumulate so she had to sell her house.
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Accrue➦
(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.
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Accumulate➦
To take a higher degree at the same time with a lower degree, or at a shorter interval than usual.
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Accrue➦
To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
The monthly financial statements show all the actual but only some of the accrued expenses.
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Accumulate➦
Collected; accumulated.
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Accrue➦
(transitive) To accumulate.
He has accrued nine sick days.
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Accumulate➦
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.
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Accrue➦
To become an enforceable and permanent right.
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Accumulate➦
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
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Accrue➦
(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing
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Accumulate➦
Collected; accumulated.
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Accrue➦
To increase; to augment.
And though power failed, her courage did accrue.
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Accumulate➦
get or gather together;
I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife
She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis
She rolled up a small fortune
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Accrue➦
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.
The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press.
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Accumulate➦
collect or gather;
Journals are accumulating in my office
The work keeps piling up
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Accrue➦
Something that accrues; advantage accruing.
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Accrue➦
grow by addition;
The interest accrues
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Accrue➦
come into the possession of;
The house accrued to the oldest son
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