accresce

English

Etymology

From Latin accrescere. Doublet of accrease. See accrue.

Verb

accresce (third-person singular simple present accresces, present participle accrescing, simple past and past participle accresced)

1. (rare, intransitive) To accrue.
2. (Early Modern, obsolete, intransitive) To increase; to grow.

References

• “accresce, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Italian

Verb

accresce

1. third-person singular present indicative of accrescere

Latin

Verb

accrēsce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of accrēscō