augment

[Aug*ment·]

Do you need to make something bigger, better, or stronger? Then you need to augment it. To augment is to increase the amount or strength of something.

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To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by re'89forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

Verb
enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the PLO chairman augmented tensions in the Near East"

Verb
grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"


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.


Augment

Aug*ment" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. , , E. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.] 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by re'89forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
But their spite still serves His glory to augment.
2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.

Augment

Aug*ment", v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

Augment

Aug"ment , n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.] 1. Enlargement by addition; increase. 2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. &hand; In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed , forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing to .

To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by re'89forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

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

Enlargement by addition; increase.

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