Antonyms for accretion
əˈkri ʃənac·cre·tion

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1. accretionnoun

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

2. accretionnoun

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

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

3. accretionnoun

   The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion of earth.

   A mineral ... augments not by grown, but by accretion.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

4. accretionnoun

   Something added externally to promote growth the external growth of an item.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

5. accretionnoun

   concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

6. accretionnoun

   A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of the fingers or toes.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

7. accretionnoun

   The gradual increase of land by deposition of water-borne sediment.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

8. accretionnoun

   The adhering of property to something else, by which the owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally, gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river, or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark.

   Antonyms:
   attrition

   Synonyms:
   growth

9. accretionnoun

   Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share.

   Synonyms:
   growth

   Antonyms:
   attrition

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1. • Addition
   • Astronomy
   • Biology
   • Geology
   • Increase
   • Inheritance
   • Law

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1. accretion, accumulationnoun

   an increase by natural growth or addition

   Synonyms:
   collection, accrual, accruement, assemblage, accumulation, aggregation

2. accretionnoun

   something contributing to growth or increase

   "he scraped away the accretions of paint"; "the central city surrounded by recent accretions"

   Synonyms:
   accumulation

3. accretionnoun

   (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases

   Synonyms:
   accumulation

4. accretionnoun

   (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles

   Synonyms:
   accumulation

5. accretionnoun

   (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment

   Synonyms:
   accumulation

6. accretionnoun

   (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)

   Synonyms:
   accumulation

How to use accretion in a sentence?

1. Jack Murphy:

   It would surprise me if Dow is the acquirer after what Dow CEO Andrew Liveris has said in the past, it's like a Christmas present. We are getting a lot of accretion in Dow's stock today, and we think there will be more going forward.

2. Erin Kara:

   Tidal disruption events offer us this rare view at the most common kind of supermassive black hole in the universe— these so-called dormant supermassive black holes, tidal disruption events, where the stellar debris causes the formation of a temporary accretion disk, offers us a way to probe this population of supermassive black holes.

3. Moncef Slaoui:

   Any accretion in value of everything I own that has anything to do with Covid, which is my GlaxoSmithKline shares, any accretion in value by the end of my mission will look -- if there has been increasing value with it -- I'll sell those shares, and I'll give that incremental value to the NIH for research.

4. Alexander Graham Bell:

   The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

5. Felipe Alves:

   We expect this two-level accretion process to drive the dynamics of the binary system during its mass accretion phase, while the good agreement of these observations with theory is already very promising, we will need to study more young binary systems in detail to better understand how multiple stars form.

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