accreted; accreting
: to grow or become attached by accretion
: to cause to adhere or become attached
also
: accumulate
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silt accreting at the mouth of the river over time
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Despite this enormous size, the black hole is actually accreting–or eating–gas at a very low rate.
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
An artist’s illustration of an accreting supermassive black hole.
—Fan Zou, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2024
There is also a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy (Sgr A*), but there is not yet enough material that has accreted for astronomers to pick up any emitted radiation, even in the infrared.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
While the federal bureaucracy was accreting independent administrative authority, however, conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s were embracing a rival interpretation of the constitutional separation of powers known as the unitary executive theory.
—Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 18 Dec. 2024
An artist’s illustration of an accreting supermassive black hole.
—Fan Zou, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2024
There is also a supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy (Sgr A*), but there is not yet enough material that has accreted for astronomers to pick up any emitted radiation, even in the infrared.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 June 2024
While the federal bureaucracy was accreting independent administrative authority, however, conservatives in the 1970s and 1980s were embracing a rival interpretation of the constitutional separation of powers known as the unitary executive theory.
—Stephen I. Vladeck, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
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“Accrete.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accrete. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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accrete
verb
ac·crete
ə-ˈkrēt 
accreted; accreting
: to grow or become attached by accretion
: to cause to adhere or become attached
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