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add up
verb adds up · adding up · added up
- To take the sum of; to total. 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?
Similar: add, add together, add up, cast, count up, foot up, reckon up, sum, sum up, summate, tally, tally up
