Word Meanings - AUGMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To add an augment to. (more info) augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream;

Additional info about word: AUGMENT

To add an augment to. (more info) augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AUGMENT)

• Accumulate
• Collect
• gamer
• grow
• mass
• heap
• store
• bring together
• hoard
• gather
• agglomerate
• husband
• augment
• amass
• increase
• Aggrandize
• Promote
• dignify
• exalt
• ennoble
• enrich
• advance
• make great
• magnify
• elevate
• signalize
• Amplify
• Enrich
• enlarge
• multiply
• dilate
• develop
• swell
• expatiate
• expand
• discuss
• unfold
• extend
• Eke
• Help
• raise
• Enlarge
• broaden
• stretch out
• stretch

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AUGMENT)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

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