Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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deposition | Yes | No | No | No |
accretion | Yes | No | No | No |
deposition (noun) | accretion (noun) |
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the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) |
the act of putting something somewhere | an increase by natural growth or addition |
(law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment |
the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles |
(astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | |
something contributing to growth or increase |