augment

augment is a 7-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. 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.
2. transitive verb. To add an augment to.
3. intransitive verb. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
4. noun. Enlargement by addition; increase.
5. noun. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
6. verb. enlarge or increase

   "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"

7. verb. grow or intensify

   "The pressure augmented"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in augment:

mutagen

Common word forms

augments, augmented, augmenter, augmenting, augmentable

Words from these letters

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