Accrete

When a word is borrowed from another language, it frequently begins by having the same meaning; but with continued use in both languages, the now separate words may accrete disparate connotations.

The tides cause sand to accrete on the shore.

Astronomers believe the Earth began to accrete more than 4.6 billion years ago.

According to the reigning hypothesis, about 4.5 billion years ago, shortly after Earth had accreted down into a sphere from its little slub of circumsolar material, another newborn planet [Theia], still shaky on its feet, slammed obliquely into Earth with terrifying force.

Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form at the snow line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles.

the reader has not only mastered this distinction , but that he has so thoroughly accreted it and assimilated it to his habits of mind

accrete matter

Fruit coriaceous, crowned with accrete calyx