meaning of augment

1. 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.
2.
To add an augment to.
3.
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
4.
Enlargement by addition; increase.
5.
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.


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augment | augmentable | augmentation | augmentative | augmented | augmented backus-naur form | augmenter | augmenting |

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