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aggrade

verb
ag·​grade | \ ə-ˈgrād, a-\
-ed/-ing/-s

Definition of aggrade

transitive verb

: to fill with detrital material silt has aggraded the river bed and waterlogged it for a hundred miles— Erna Fergusson

intransitive verb

: to build up by aggradation meltwater streams were aggrading beyond the moraines— R. J. Lougee

First Known Use of aggrade

1893, in the meaning defined at transitive sense

History and Etymology for aggrade

ad- + -grade (as in degrade entry 1)

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