Associations to the word «Augment»

Wiktionary

AUGMENT, verb. (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
AUGMENT, verb. (intransitive) (reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
AUGMENT, verb. (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
AUGMENT, verb. (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
AUGMENT, verb. (grammar) (transitive) To add an augment to.
AUGMENT, noun. (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.

Dictionary definition

AUGMENT, verb. Enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East".
AUGMENT, verb. Grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn