augment

augment has 7 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• 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.
• v. t.. To add an augment to.
• v. i.. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
• n.. Enlargement by addition; increase.
• n.. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
• v.. enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
• v.. grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"