Accrue

Verb1.accrue - grow by addition; "The interest accrues"
redound - be added; "Everything he does redounds to himself"
increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased"
2.accrue - come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son"
change hands - be transferred to another owner; "This restaurant changed owners twice last year"
devolve, return, fall, pass - be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead"
light, fall - fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims"

 

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