Augment

[ɔːg'ment] or [ɔɡ'mɛnt]

Definition

(verb.) enlarge or increase; 'The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East'.

(verb.) grow or intensify; 'The pressure augmented'.

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Definition

(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

(v. t.) To add an augment to.

(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Typist: Veronica

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Enlarge, increase, magnify, add to, make larger.

v. n. Increase, grow larger.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See ENLARGE]

Typist: Zamenhof

Definition

v.t. to increase: to make larger.—v.i. to grow larger.—n. Aug′ment increase: (gram.) the prefixed vowel to the past tenses of the verb in Sanskrit and Greek. Sometimes applied also to such inflectional prefixes as the ge- of the German perfect participle.—adjs. Augment′able Augment′ative having the quality or power of augmenting.—n. (gram.) a word formed from another to express increase of its meaning.—ns. Augmentā′tion increase: addition: (her.) an additional charge in a coat-of-arms bestowed by the sovereign as a mark of honour: (mus.) the repetition of a melody in the course of the piece in notes of greater length than the original: (Scots law) an increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors; Augment′er.

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Examples

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