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Accrete

To grow together.

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Accumulate 76% connected

To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money.

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Amass 76% connected

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases.

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Blend 76% connected

To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguis…

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Coalesce 76% connected

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

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Combine 76% connected

To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous substance, as by chemical u…

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Commingle 76% connected

To mingle together; to mix in one mass, or intimately; to blend.

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Conflate 76% connected

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

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Conglomerate 76% connected

Gathered into a ball or a mass; collected together; concentrated; as, conglomerate rays of light.

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Cumulate 76% connected

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate.

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Flux 76% connected

The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.

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Fuse 76% connected

To liquefy by heat; to render fiuid; to dissolve; to melt.

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Gather 76% connected

To bring together; to collect, as a number of separate things, into one place, or into one aggregate body; to assemble; to muster; to congregate.

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Immix 76% connected

To mix; to mingle.

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Merge 76% connected

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

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Mix 76% connected

To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or b…

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Derivationally related 4

Accretion 74% connected

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Accretion 74% connected

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

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Accretive 74% connected

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

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Accretive 74% connected

Relating to accretion; increasing, or adding to, by growth.

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