Definition of "accretes" [accretes]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of accrete. (verb)

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• "In the course of time, the phrase accretes around itself a large but miscellaneous body of passions, convictions, com - mitments, complaints, and especially antipathies."
• ""They're usually cooked in red sauce, either as shown in a large container, or better, you might marinate them for a while first, throw them on the grill and then as they're cooking, you keep slathering the sauce, so that it kind of accretes like wax does on a wick when you're making candles, or like the layers of paint that get added on an old house over the decades."
• "Only, expectation accretes about the scene, all those images, and when it's finally time to write it, I'm so afraid of not living up to my imagination ..."