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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. --Milton. 2. (Gram.) To add an augment to From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Augment \Aug*ment"\, v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as a stream augments by rain. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Augment \Aug"ment\, n. [L. augmentum: cf F. augment.] 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 ?, forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing ? to ?. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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"
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