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add up

verb

Meaning

  • To take a sum.

    "Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost."

  • 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."

  • 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

accrue,
mount up,
compute,
hang together,
sum up,
tally