Augment

English

Verb

Augment (third-person singular simple present Augments, present participle Augmenting, simple past and past participle Augmented)

1. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
2. (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
3. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
4. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).

Noun

Augment (plural Augments)

1. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.

Adverbs for Augment

currently; incredibly: scarcely; tremendously; indefinitely; continually.

Thesaurus

add to; agent provocateur; aggrandize; aggravate; amplify; annoy; bloat; blow up; boost; broaden; build; build up; bulk; bulk out; compound; crescendo; deepen; deteriorate; develop; dilate; distend; embitter; enhance; enlarge; exacerbate; exalt; exasperate; expand; extend; fatten; fill out; fortify; heat up; heighten; hike; hike up; hot up; huff; increase; inflate; intensify; irritate; jack up; jump up; lengthen; magnify; make acute; make worse; manifold; maximize; mount; multiply; parlay; provoke; puff; puff up; pump; pump up; put up; pyramid; raise; rarefy; recruit; reinforce; rise; sharpen; sour; strengthen; stretch; sufflate; supplement; swell; thicken; up; upsurge; wax; widen; worsen

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/, SAMPA: /O:g"mEnt/
• (US) enPR: ôg-mĕntʹ IPA: /ɔɡˈmɛnt/, SAMPA: /Og"mEnt/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ɑɡˈmɛnt/, SAMPA: /Ag"mEnt/

  Audio (US cot-caught merged)

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• Rhymes: -ɛnt
• Hyphenation: aug‧ment

Derived terms

• augmentless

Related terms

• auction
• augmentable
• augmentation