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Definitions of add up to words

phrasal verb add up to If amounts add up to a particular total, they result in that total when they are put together. 3
noun add up to to reach a total of 3
noun add up to to mean; signify 3
verb with object add up to to unite or join so as to increase the number, quantity, size, or importance: to add two cups of sugar; to add a postscript to her letter; to add insult to injury. 1
verb with object add up to to find the sum of (often followed by up): Add this column of figures. Add up the grocery bills. 1
verb with object add up to to say or write further. 1

before 1325

One of the 16% oldest English words

1325-75; Middle English adden < Latin addere, equivalent to ad- ad- + -dere to put (combining form; see do1)

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A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 95% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.

Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

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spell — a continuous course or period of work or other activity: to take a spell at the wheel.
amount to — If you say that one thing amounts to something else, you consider the first thing to be the same as the second thing.