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Meaning of 'augment' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Augment [ n.]
- Enlargement by addition; increase.
- A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
2 . Augment [ v. i.]
- To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
3 . Augment [ 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.
- To add an augment to.

Meaning of 'augment' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . augment [ v]
Meaning (1):
- grow or intensify
Example in sentence:
  • The pressure augmented
Meaning (2):
- enlarge or increase
Example in sentence:
  • The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East

Nearby Words:

augean auger auget aught augite augitic augmentable augmentation augmentative augmented

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