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verb (adverb)

to find the sum (of)

(intr) to result in a correct total

(intr) informal to make sense

(intr foll by to) to amount to

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His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

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Words nearby add up

adduce, adducent, adduct, adduction, adductor, add up, add up to, addy, Ade, adeem, Adelaide

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How to use add up in a sentence

He thinks if you add up the above the line you'll see that 50 gets you the slightly bigger movie with more action and 45 won't.
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But all of them add up to a coiled-up rage, ready to lash out at the nearest target.
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Corruption, suspicion, and a lack of doctors all add up to a growing calamity in Freetown.
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Genuinely funny and intelligent and navel-gazing and strange, these parts might eventually add up to something truly big.
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All of these differences add up to make each planet unique, a product of happenstance and history.
The Best Map of Mars Yet|Matthew R. Francis|July 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But suppose the pages do not add up to the same amount—they rarely do, and they rarely should—What then?
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping|Elizabeth Hale Gilman
Then he began to add up the counterfoils of his cheque-book, a depressing operation that displayed an imminent financial crisis.
Plashers Mead|Compton Mackenzie
But something is going to happen, just as sure as you can add up two and three and make five out of them.
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In itself, each critical situation was minor, but lumped together they could add up to failure.
Student Body|Floyd L. Wallace
They wrote down another word or two (which isn't fair), and then began to add up.
Happy Days|Alan Alexander Milne

Other Idioms and Phrases with add up

add up

Amount to an expected or correct total, as in These figures don't add up, meaning they are not correct. [Mid-1800s]

Be consistent, make sense, as in I'm not sure that all this testimony will add up. [First half of 1900s]

Assess, form an opinion of, as in He looked across the track and added up the competition. Also see add up to.

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