Associations to the word «Augmenting»

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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King