Found 3 items, similar to Augment.
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: augment
augment
v 1: enlarge or increase;
“The recent speech of the PLO chairman
augmented tensions in the Near East”
2: grow or intensify;
“The pressure augmented”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Augment
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["e]forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience
augments an evil.
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But their spite still serves
His glory to augment. --Milton.
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2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.
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Augment
\Aug*ment"\, v. i.
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a
stream augments by rain.
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Augment
\Aug"ment\, n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]
1. Enlargement by addition; increase.
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2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial
vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
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Note: 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 ?.
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