Definition of augment

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Augment (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

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Augmentative :: Augmentative (a.) Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.
Diminish :: Diminish (v. t.) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Augmentable :: Augmentable (a.) Capable of augmentation.
Augmentative :: Augmentative (n.) A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive..
Multiplication :: Multiplication (n.) An increase above the normal number of parts, especially of petals; augmentation..
Anabasis :: Anabasis (n.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation..
Disaugment :: Disaugment (v. t.) To diminish.
Increment :: Increment (n.) The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement..
Difference :: Difference (n.) An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency..
Power :: Power (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface..
Rise :: Rise (n.) Increase; advance; augmentation, as of price, value, rank, property, fame, and the like..
Extension :: Extension (v. t.) The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Augment :: Augment (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..
Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
Redouble :: Redouble (v. t.) To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
Eke :: Eke (v. t.) To increase; to add to; to augment; -- now commonly used with out, the notion conveyed being to add to, or piece out by a laborious, inferior, or scanty addition; as, to eke out a scanty supply of one kind with some other..
Interfere :: Interfere (v. i.) To act reciprocally, so as to augment, diminish, or otherwise affect one another; -- said of waves, rays of light, heat, etc. See Interference, 2..
Microphonous :: Microphonous (a.) Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
Addition :: Addition (n.) Anything added; increase; augmentation; as, a piazza is an addition to a building..
Augmenter :: Augmenter (n.) One who, or that which, augments or increases anything..
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