augment
pronunciation
How to pronounce augment in British English:
UK [ɔːɡˈment]
How to pronounce augment in American English:
US [ɔːɡˈment]
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- Verb:
- enlarge or increase
- grow or intensify
Word Origin
- augment (v.)
- c. 1400, from Old French augmenter "increase, enhance" (14c.), from Late Latin augmentare "to increase," from Latin augmentum "an increase," from augere "to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich," from PIE root *aug- (1) "to increase" (cognates: Sanskrit ojas- "strength;" Lithuanian augu "to grow," aukstas "high, of superior rank;" Greek auxo "increase," auxein "to increase;" Gothic aukan "to grow, increase;" Old English eacien "to increase"). Related: Augmented; augmenting. As a noun from early 15c.
Example
- 1. Swfs invest excess savings abroad to augment national wealth .
- 2. We augment our own intelligence by turning to others .
- 3. Sharing data with computers lets them modify and augment your data , effectively making it improve over time .
- 4. More fraught , though within reach , are efforts to augment the resources of the imf and to get the fund to deploy this money rapidly , something which emerging ones are ambivalent about .
- 5. Some 60 books augment the course materials .