accroître

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See also: accroitre

French

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French accroistre, from Old French acroistre, acreistre, inherited from Latin accrēscere. By surface analysis, a- +‎ croître.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.kʁwatʁ/
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Verb

accroître

  1. (transitive) to increase
    • 2012, Réaliser le changement, Congress of the French Socialist Party:
      Au cœur du modèle néolibéral, le libre-échange sans précaution a accru le phénomène des délocalisations.
      Rash free trade, at the heart of the neoliberal model, has increased the phenomenon of relocations.
  2. (reflexive, s'accroître) to increase, to grow
    • c. 1918—1920, Henri Louatron, À la messe noire ou le Luciférisme existe, Mamers (Sarthe): vanity press, page 39:
      Depuis 1870 le nombre des insulteurs du Dieu des chrétiens s’est accru d’une dizaine de millions ; vous le constatiez vous-même l’an dernier.
      Since 1870, the number of blasphemers of the Christians' God has increased by some ten million; you noticed it yourself last year.

Conjugation

This verb is conjugated like croître except that it takes fewer circumflexes than that verb does.

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