augment
verb (used with object)
to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase.
was augmenting
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past progressiveof augment.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Its theocratic dictator, Ayatollah Khomeini, was augmenting his powers by claiming to speak for the Muslim world, as well as taking aim at novelists.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 4, 2020
They represented most energetically Gen. Lyon's predicament, without money, clothing or rations, and with a force even more rapidly diminishing than that of the enemy was augmenting.
From The Struggle for Missouri by John McElroy
My final frightened upward glance told me that the nauseous cataclysm was augmenting rather than lessening.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
That wasn't much, but he was augmenting it in another way which he believed would bring great profit in the future.
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
The two succeeding days were cold and stormy; the snow was augmenting, and there was a good deal of ice running in the river.
From Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Washington Irving
