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accrete

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7 lettersPronunciation /əˈkɹiːt/Part of speech verbSorted acceertStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. grow or become attached by accretion

Word origin

Back-formation from accretion.

Used in a sentence

  • Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.
  • Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form at the snow line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles.
  • the reader has not only mastered this distinction , but that he has so thoroughly accreted it and assimilated it to his habits of mind

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