AUGMENTED

augmented

(adjective) added to or made greater in amount or number or strength; “his augmented renown”; “a greatly augmented collection of books”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Adjective

augmented (comparative more augmented, superlative most augmented)

increased in number, amount or strength.

(music) increased by a semitone.

Antonyms

• (music): diminished

Coordinate terms

• (music): perfect

Verb

augmented

simple past tense and past participle of augment

Source: Wiktionary

AUGMENT

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