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Meaning Of Augment
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.