augment
(verb) enlarge or increase; “The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East”
augment
(verb) grow or intensify; “The pressure augmented”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
augment (third-person singular simple present augments, present participle augmenting, simple past and past participle augmented)
(transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
augment (plural augments)
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
(grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
An increase.
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Source: Wiktionary
Aug*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] Etym: [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. 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 reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: To add an augment to.
Aug*ment", v. i.
Definition: To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Aug"ment, n. Etym: [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]
1. Enlargement by addition; increase.
2. (Gram.)
Definition: 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 temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2025
(verb) come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; “Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble”; “the political movie backlashed on the Democrats”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest iced coffee is 14,228.1 liters and was created by Caffé Bene (South Korea), in Yangju, South Korea, on 17 July 2014. They poured iced black Americano on the giant cup that measured 3.3 meters tall and 2.62 meters wide.
