Augment

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  • intransitive verb. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: synonym: increase.
  • intransitive verb. To add an augment to.
  • intransitive verb. To become augmented.
  • noun. The prefixation of a vowel accompanying a past tense, especially of Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To increase; enlarge in size or extent; swell: as, to augment an army by reinforcement; impatience augments an evil.
  • In grammar, to add an augment to.
  • In heraldry, to make an honorable addition to, as a coat of arms.
  • To become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; increase; grow larger.
  • noun. Increase; enlargement by addition; augmentation.
  • noun. In grammar, an addition at the beginning of certain past indicative tenses of the verb in a part of the Indo-European languages.
  • noun. In pathology, the period of a fever between its commencement and its height.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense.
  • noun. Enlargement by addition; increase.
  • noun. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
  • transitive verb. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger
  • transitive verb. To add an augment to.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To increase; to make larger or supplement.
  • verb. To grow; to increase; to become greater.
  • verb. To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
  • verb. To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
  • noun. In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. grow or intensify
  • verb. enlarge or increase
  • Word Usage
    "Of course, that hasn't stopped Jasper Fforde from saying idiotic things like: "My thoughts on Fan Fiction are pretty much this: That it seems strange to want to copy or 'augment' someone else's work when you could expend just as much energy and have a lot more fun making up your own.""
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    grow  increase  
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    Bendt  Brent  Gent  Ghent  Kent  
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