augment

Definitions


[ɔːɡˈmɛnt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- make (something) greater by adding to it; increase
(e.g: he augmented his summer income by painting houses)


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Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French augmenter (verb), augment (noun), or late Latin augmentare, from Latin augere ‘to increase’


[ˈɔːɡmənt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a vowel prefixed to past tenses of verbs in Greek and certain other Indo-European languages


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French augmenter (verb), augment (noun), or late Latin augmentare, from Latin augere ‘to increase’




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