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| SYLLABICATION: | aug·ment |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  ôg-m nt |
| VERB: | Inflected forms: aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments
| | TRANSITIVE VERB: | 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: Continuing rains augmented the floodwaters. 2. Linguistics To add an augment to. | | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To become augmented. See synonyms at increase. | | NOUN: | (ôgmnt ) Linguistics The prefixation of a vowel accompanying a past tense, especially of Greek and Sanskrit verbs. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English augmenten, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augment re, from Latin augmentum, an increase, from aug re, to increase. See aug- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | aug·menta·ble —ADJECTIVE
aug·menter —NOUN
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