Augment(n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
Augment(n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Augment(v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Augment(v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
Augment(v. t.) To add an augment to.
Augmentable(a.) Capable of augmentation.
Augmentation(n.) The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
Augmentation(n.) The state of being augmented; enlargement.
Augmentation(n.) The thing added by way of enlargement.
Augmentation(n.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
Augmentation(n.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
Augmentation(n.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
Augmentative(a.) Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.
Augmentative(n.) A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive.
Augmented(imp. & p. p.) of Augment
Augmenter(n.) One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.
Augmenting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Augment
Words within augmentation