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ACCRETIONS
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Classic
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Big
11
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Super Big
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ACCRETIONS is a valid 10-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 11 in Classic, 11 in Big, and 20 in Super Big Boggle.
ACCRETIONS root ACCRETION-s
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noun
- alsofigurativelyuncountableIncrease by natural growth, especially the gradual increase of organic bodies by the internal addition of matter; organic growth; also, the amount of such growth.
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uncountable(Gradual) increase by an external addition of matter; (countable) an instance of this.
- A mineral augments not by growth, but by accretion.
- countableuncountableThe process by which material is added to a geological feature; specifically, to a tectonic plate at a subduction zone.
- alsofigurativelyuncountableFollowed by of: external addition of matter to a thing which causes it to grow, especially in amount or size.
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uncountableThe process of separate particles aggregating or coalescing together; concretion; (countable) a thing formed in this manner.
- The accretion of particles forms a solid mass.
- countableuncountableThe formation of planets, stars, and other celestial bodies by the aggregating of matter drawn together by gravity; also, the growth of a celestial body through this process.
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countablefigurativelySomething gradually added to or growing on a thing externally.
- accretion of ice
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countablefigurativelyuncountableA substance which has built up on the surface of an object, rather than become embedded in it.
- Accretions of dirt on clothing are often left in place by conservators because they can provide additional details about the artefact’s importance or history.
- uncountableIncrease in property by the addition of other property to it (for example, gain of land by alluvion (“the deposition of sediment by a river or sea”) or dereliction (“recession of water from the usual watermark”), or entitlement to the products of the property such as interest on money); or by the property owner acquiring another person’s ownership rights; accession; (countable) an instance of this.
- uncountableIncrease of an inheritance to an heir or legatee due to the share of a co-heir or co-legatee being added to it, because the latter person is legally unable to inherit the share.