Augment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for AUGMENT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to increase
• make (something) greater by adding to it; increase
• increase or enlarge
• To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
• To add an augment to.
• To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
• grow or intensify
NOUN:
• a vowel prefixed to past tenses of verbs in Greek and certain other Indo-European languages.
• Enlargement by addition; increase.
• A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
• vowel prefix forming a past tense

Words related to AUGMENT

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Words that contain AUGMENT

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How to use AUGMENT in a sentence

• But every one of her undertakings can only throw her into greater discomfort and augment the total of ruin.
• Nor, at times, was the sound of music wanting, to augment the poetry of the scene.
• The capital art of life is to renew and augment your power by its expenditure.
• They were probably due to the large preponderance of colored people in the State, which rendered the whites the more willing to augment their own number.
• These stories, I believe, augment, not only the interest but the scientific value of the monograph.
• I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.
• Each guest had his own dishes, and it was a mark of special honor to augment their number.
• May God our Lord preserve your Majesty for years, as we desire, and augment your happy state, as we your least and unworthy chaplains desire, etc.
• The motives which have led the great body of whites to vote together in this age, must augment in force in the age to follow.
• The chief officer of the royal province was the governor, who enjoyed high and important powers which he naturally sought to augment at every turn.
• If left to become garden waste in the usual way, these old Onions do much to perpetuate and augment the plague.
• Even then it is advisable to augment the temperature very gradually, and to defer the employment of its highest power until the latest possible moment.
• Ancient relations with Egypt, whence perhaps resulted some purely material ingredients, did but augment their repulsion to idolatry.
• This will, however, be counteracted by some circumstances, while others will tend to augment the violence of its effects.
• The publishers have embraced the opportunity of a new revision of the work to augment its size, so that the book is now a third larger than any of the preceding editions.
• About the middle of the third century various circumstances conspired to augment the authority of the great bishops.
• This is the death of Diego de Herrera with ten priests who are coming, six from Spain and four from Mexico, to augment the missionary efforts.
• Potatoes are soaked in water to augment their weight.
• It is said to have been the only one of the countries which was able to meet the demand put upon it for motors without going into some other land to augment its supply.
• The parliament, swayed by custom, would not augment their number in the same proportion.
• Levies of soldiers were made in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands, to augment the armies of Spain.
• Our clothes were wrinkled from being used to augment our bedding on cold nights.
• The danger which War brings with it, the bodily exertions which it requires, augment this evil so much that they may be regarded as the greatest causes of it.
• Max would be with the duke, and would, I hoped, augment the favor with which Charles already honored him.
• But so much the more did Alpharbal augment the repute thereof.
• His clumsy interference in the intrigues of his friend only serves to augment his difficulties, and occasions many an awkward dilemma.
• She may also augment her income by lectures and work of that description.
• Lord TENNYSON, a Second Pension from the Civil List, to augment the one granted half a century or so ago.
• But then, forty-five men will be better provided for, whilst forty-five others will come to augment the number of those who are sinking into the grave.

Similar words containing AUGM without suffix ent

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