Definitions for: Augment


[v] enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the PLO chairman augmented tensions in the Near East"
[v] grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"



Webster (1913) Definition: Aug*ment", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. &
vb. n. Augmenting.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an
increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. ?, ?, E.
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
re["e]forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience
augments an evil.

But their spite still serves His glory to augment.
--Milton.

2. (Gram.) To add an augment to.


Aug*ment", v. i.
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a
stream augments by rain.


Aug"ment, n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]
1. Enlargement by addition; increase.

2. (Gram.) 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 ?, forming
an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase
of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by
changing ? to ?.

See Also: grow, increase

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