add up

verb

Definitions

  1. To take the sum of

    To take the sum of; to total.

    • Add up the prices and find out how much it will cost.
    • When they added up the vaccine doses from all known and anticipate sources, they didn't have enough.
  2. To accumulate

    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.
    • It all keeps adding up / I think I'm cracking up / Am I just paranoid? / Or am I just stoned?
    • The bus wound its way up into San Marino, passing through the various small castellos that add up to form the diminutive country, […]
  3. To make sense

    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?
    • Phoenix: (Hmm... Something just isn't adding up here. I wonder, who they really saw?)

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No curated loop yet for add up. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA