Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To add an augment to.
- 3intransitive verb
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
- 4noun
Enlargement by addition; increase.
- 5noun
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
- 6verb
enlarge or increase
"The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
- 7verb
grow or intensify
"The pressure augmented"
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