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Verb
accrew (third-person singular simple present accrews, present participle accrewing, simple past and past participle accrewed)
- Archaic form of accrue.
- 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:
- 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.