Complete Definition of "add up"

English
Verb
en-verb|adds up|adding up|added up|inf=to add 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.
#idiom|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?

fr:add up

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