add up

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Verb

add up (third-person singular simple present adds up, present participle adding up, simple past and past participle added up)

(transitive) To take a sum.
Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
(intransitive) To accumulate; to amount to.
If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year.
(idiomatic, intransitive) To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent.
His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?

Synonyms

(take a sum): sum up, tally; see also Thesaurus:summate
(amount to): accrue, mount up; see also Thesaurus:accumulate
(make sense): compute, hang together

Translations

take a sum

French: additionner (fr)

amount to

French: faire (fr)

be reasonable or consistent — see make sense

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