augment

1. 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. Source: opted

2. v. t. To add an augment to. Source: opted

3. v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain. Source: opted

4. n. Enlargement by addition; increase. Source: opted

5. n. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. Source: opted

6. v. enlarge or increase Source: wordnet

7. v. grow or intensify Source: wordnet

8. 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton. 2. (Gram.) To add an augment to. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain. 1. Enlargement by addition; increase. 2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing Source: webster

9. v:100 v. enlarge or increase v. grow or intensify Source: ecdict

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