augment
- to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
- Music.
- to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step.
- to double the note values of (a theme): In the fugue's development the subject is augmented.
- Grammar. to add an augment to.
- Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to (a coat of arms).
- to become larger.
- Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.
Origin of augment
Synonyms for augment
See more synonyms for on Thesaurus.comRelated Words for augmenting
develop, strengthen, intensify, enlarge, multiply, reinforce, heighten, enhance, inflate, boost, expand, amplify, raise, extend, swell, magnify, mount, increase, sweeten, padExamples from the Web for augmenting
Contemporary Examples of augmenting
For most Americans, Social Security isn't augmenting private saving; private saving is (just barely) augmenting Social Security.
Today, Krugman weighs in, augmenting a point I made and then making yet another point.
Historical Examples of augmenting
In fact, he found his anger receding rather than augmenting.
One Day's CourtshipRobert Barr
This thought instead of augmenting her distress seemed to soothe her.
The RescueJoseph Conrad
Others, more reverent, suffer the agony of augmenting shines.
A Book of BurlesquesH. L. Mencken
All this time her own little fortune could be augmenting, interest on interest.
A Little Girl in Old BostonAmanda Millie Douglas
Now the augmenting mists had shut off all the rest of the world.
augment
- to make or become greater in number, amount, strength, etc; increase
- (tr) music to increase (a major or perfect interval) by a semitoneCompare diminish (def. 3)
- (tr) (in Greek and Sanskrit grammar) to prefix a vowel or diphthong to (a verb) to form a past tense
- (in Greek and Sanskrit grammar) a vowel or diphthong prefixed to a verb to form a past tense
Word Origin for augment
Word Origin and History for augmenting
augment
c.1400, from Old French augmenter "increase, enhance" (14c.), from Late Latin augmentare "to increase," from Latin augmentum "an increase," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE root *aug- "to increase" (cf. Sanskrit ojas- "strength;" Lithuanian augu "to grow," aukstas "high, of superior rank;" Greek auxo "increase," auxein "to increase;" Gothic aukan "to grow, increase;" Old English eacien "to increase"). Related: Augmented; augmenting. As a noun from early 15c.