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Swell fellows standing in for us during holiday month?
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augment
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Word definitions for augment in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, from Old French augmenter "increase, enhance" (14c.), from Late Latin augmentare "to increase," from Latin augmentum "an increase," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE root *aug- (1) "to increase" (cognates: Sanskrit ojas- ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Augment \Aug"ment\, n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.] Enlargement by addition; increase. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linguistics , the augment is a syllable added to the beginning of the word in certain Indo-European languages , most notably Greek , Armenian and Indo-Iranian languages such as Sanskrit , to form the past tenses.
Usage examples of augment.
So advertisers will use cable to augment a marketing program, not as a primary means of producing results.
It is very necessary to discriminate between these diseases, as the appropriate remedies of the latter will often only aggravate and augment the former.
About the end of July 1805 the embarrassment which sometime before had begun to be felt in the finances of Europe was alarmingly augmented.
Gordon glanced quickly at Charles Bezoar, standing beyond the two augments.
That though Lucie had sufficiently strangled herself as to induce a kind of catalepsy, she was not dead, and did not die until the injury of a mainly collapsed windpipe was augmented by the disadvantages of the grave.
Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of this policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of that policy that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented.
Under the operation of the policy that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented.
Yet under the operation of that policy this agitation has not only not ceased, but it has been constantly augmented.
The bathroom, added to the house in the 1920s, had some insulation, which Cig and Blackie had augmented in the 1980s.
The pain was augmented during deglutition, and almost immediately afterward he commenced to expectorate great quantities of blood.
Further than this, these arrivals, by their evident unfitness for any allowable mortal use, and inferential diabolicalness, filled the neighbourhood with a vague horror and lively curiosity, which were greatly augmented by the extraordinary phenomena, and still more extraordinary accounts thereof, that followed their reception in the Manse.
I answered gravely that I did not want the money, and that I had augmented the first flagon only for the sake of procuring him an agreeable surprise.