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| aug·ment [ awg mént ] |
verb (past and past participle aug·ment·ed, present participle aug·ment·ing, 3rd person present singular aug·ments) |
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1. transitive and intransitive verb increase: to add to something in order to make it larger or more substantial, or to grow in this way
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2. transitive verb music increase musical interval: to enlarge a perfect or major musical interval by a semitone
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noun (plural aug·ments) |
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grammar prefixed vowel: in Greek or Sanskrit grammar, a vowel prefixed to a verb, or added to its initial vowel so as to lengthen it into a diphthong, to form a past tense
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| [14th century. < French augmenter< Latin augere "to increase" < Indo-European] |
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  aug·ment·ed adjective |
| aug·ment·er noun |
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