Definition of "accrue"

accrue

/əˈkɹuː/

verb
third-person singular simple present accrues, present participle accruing, simple past and past participle accrued
1. (intransitive) To increase, to rise
  Quotations
  And though pow’r fail’d, her Courage did accrue
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
2. (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.
  Quotations
  Interest accrues to principal.
  1879, Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Dictionary of Terms and Phrases used in American or English Jurisprudence: ACCRUE
  The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press
  1772, Junius, The Letters of Junius, Preface
3. (intransitive, accounting) To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
4. (transitive) To accumulate.
  Quotations
  We, who are dead and gone, shall bear no Part, / In all the Pleasures, no shall we feel the smart, / Which to that other Mortal shall accrew, / Whom of our Matter Time shall mould anew.
  1709, John Dryden, "Lucretius: A Poem against the Fear of Death" (lines 26-29), published in a pamphlet of the same name with an Ode in Memory of Mrs. Ann Killebrew
5. (intransitive, law) To become an enforceable and permanent right.
noun
plural accrues
1. (obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing