English Dictionary: augmenting | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Augment \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[89]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. |