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