augment
Plural: augments
Verb
Verb Forms: augmented, augmenting, augments
- To make something greater by adding to it; to increase.
- enlarge or increase
- "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
- grow or intensify
- "The pressure augmented"
- To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- To add an augment to.
Noun
- A grammatical prefix
- In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- A grammatical prefix
- Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
- A grammatical prefix
- In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- An increase.
Examples
- I used an S to augment my word and reach the bonus square.
- The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.
- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).
Synonyms
add, augment, eke, embiggen, enhance, enlarge, enlargen, increase, increment, largen, raise, strengthen, up
Scrabble Score: 10
augment: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordaugment: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
augment: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary