Antonyms for accrue
əˈkruac·crue

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1. accrueverb

   Antonyms:
   amortize

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1. • Increase

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1. accrueverb

   grow by addition

   "The interest accrues"

   Synonyms:
   fall

2. accrue, fallverb

   come into the possession of

   "The house accrued to the oldest son"

   Synonyms:
   shine, go down, diminish, strike, devolve, flow, precipitate, settle, lessen, come down, pass, descend, come, return, light, fall, hang, decrease, fall down

How to use accrue in a sentence?

1. Steve Emerson:

   It will accrue to their positive development in terms of financing, reputation and all that, and there'll probably be a brigade named in the brothers' memory.

2. Scott Kennedy:

   I think people would read it for what it is - wanting to make sure that whatever access is given to foreign companies, the benefits still accrue to domestic companies.

3. Anthony Fauci:

   We're going to keep going until we get there. We may just need to accrue more volunteers than [ 30,000 ].

4. The HRW report:

   Lebanon's main political parties, including Hezbollah, the Free Patriotic Movement, the Future Movement, the Lebanese Forces, the Amal Movement, and others, have benefited from the port's ambiguous status and poor governance and accountability structures, political parties have installed loyalists in prominent positions in the port, often positioning them to accrue wealth, siphon off state revenues, smuggle goods, and evade taxes in ways that benefit them or people connected to them.

5. James Bullard:

   You can hit the pause button on the U.S. economy, but if you try to keep it on pause for too long, too many other problems will start to accrue and you'll start to get lots of bankruptcies and lots of business failures.

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