Accrue vs. Amortize: What's the Difference?

To come to one as a gain, addition, or increment

To liquidate (a debt, such as a mortgage) by installment payments or payment into a sinking fund.

To increase, accumulate, or come about as a result of growth

To write off an expenditure for (an asset, especially an intangible one, such as a patent) by prorating over a certain period, usually the expected duration of the asset's benefit.

To come into existence as a claim that is legally enforceable.

(transitive) To alienate (property) in mortmain.

To accumulate over time

(transitive) To wipe out (a debt, liability etc.) gradually or in installments.

(intransitive) To increase, to rise

To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost iterations, which lowers the average running time.

(intransitive) To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.

To make as if dead; to destroy.

To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.

To alienate in mortmain, that is, to convey to a corporation. See Mortmain.

(transitive) To accumulate.

To clear off or extinguish, as a debt, usually by means of a sinking fund.

To become an enforceable and permanent right.

Liquidate gradually

(obsolete) Something that accrues; advantage accruing

To increase; to augment.

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent.

Something that accrues; advantage accruing.

Grow by addition;

Come into the possession of;