AUGMENT

v. n.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.
v.

To add an augment to.

3.
v.

To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

4.
n.

Enlargement by addition; increase.

5.
n.

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


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