add

To put something with something else.

• Add a little milk.
• She added salt to the soup.
• Can you add my name to the list?

How to use it: add something to something (Add the flour to the bowl.)

Similar words: put in, include

Opposites: remove

Common phrases: add something to something, add some salt, add more water

To make an amount, value, or effect greater.

• The repairs added value to our home.
• Heavy traffic added an hour to the journey.
• These changes will add to the cost.

How to use it: add something to something (The delay added ten minutes to our trip.); add to something (The flowers add to the room’s charm.)

Similar words: increase, raise

Opposites: reduce

Common phrases: add value, add to something, add extra time

To say something more after you or someone else has spoken.

• “Come early,” she added.
• He added that the tickets were free.
• Would you like to add anything else?

How to use it: add that… (She added that everyone was welcome.)

Similar words: say further, continue

Common phrases: add that, add something else, add a comment, add a remark

To put numbers together to find their total.

• Add three and four.
• I added up all the prices.
• Can you add these numbers together?

How to use it: add A and B (Add six and two to get eight.); add something up (Add the amounts up before you pay.)

Similar words: sum, total

Opposites: subtract

Common phrases: add up, add two numbers, add something together

An extra enemy that enters a fight already happening in a video game.

• An add appeared behind the boss.
• The tank kept the adds away from us.
• Kill each add before it reaches the healer.

Similar words: extra enemy

Common phrases: kill an add, spawn an add, deal with adds