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accretionnoun a mass or quantity that has piled up or that has been gathered over a period of timea thick accretion of ice in a freezer that obviously had not been cleaned for some time accumulation, assemblage, collection, cumulation, cumulus, gathering, lodgment(or lodgement), pileup agglomerate, assortment, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, jumble, medley, mélange, mishmash, mix, mixture, motley, potpourriagglomeration, clutter, hash, heap, litter, mass, pileaggregate, aggregation, sum, totalitybacklog, cache, fund, hoard, inventory, kitty, nest egg, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply something added (as by growth)accretions of lime have thickened the cave's stalactites and stalagmites over the centuries accrual, addendum, addition, augmentation, boost, expansion, gain, increase, increment, more, plus, proliferation, raise, rise, step-up, supplement, uptick accumulation, assemblage, collection, gatheringcomplementaccession, appendix, continuation, extension, uptrend, upturnjump, run-up, spike abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, depletion, diminishment, diminution, drop-off, fall, falloff, lessening, loss, lowering, reduction, shrinkage, step-down deduction, subtraction in 1615 |