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Add up

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  1. 1
    To take the sum of; to total. transitive

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

  2. 2
    determine the sum of wordnet
  3. 3
    To accumulate; to amount to. intransitive

    "If you can save even a couple of dollars per day, it will add up to a lot over a year."

  4. 4
    be reasonable or logical or comprehensible wordnet
  5. 5
    To make sense; to be reasonable or consistent. idiomatic, intransitive

    "His story just doesn't add up. Why would he have been at the restaurant the day before the event?"

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  1. 6
    to measure up to in kind or quality wordnet
  2. 7
    add up in number or quantity wordnet

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