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add up

verb

  1. to assess, analyse
  2. to make sense
  3. to amount to, signify
  4. to tally, total, include in calculation of sum
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Wiktionary

verb

  1. 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 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?

  3. 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?)