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Definition of Augment

Augment 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. Enlargement by addition; increase. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs. Related Definitions: Add, Addition, Amount, An, And, Army, As, Augment, Bigger, By, Degree, Enlarge, Enlargement, Evil, Greek, Grow, Impatience, In, Increase, Initial, Intense, Lengthening, Make, Mark, More, Of, Or, Past, Prefixed, Rain, Sanskrit, Size, Stream, Swell, The, Time, To, Vowel

Augment Quotations There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. Benjamin Franklin If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it. David Ricardo Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. David Ricardo

Augment Translations augment in Dutch is uitbouwen, vergroten, uitbreiden augment in French is agrandir, propager augment in Portuguese is aumente augment in Spanish is acrecentar

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