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

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
Martin Luther King Jr.