All 3 Uses of
augment
in
Bleak House
- Seized with an augmented terror of myself which turned me cold, I ran from myself and everything, retraced the way by which I had come, and never paused until I had gained the lodge-gate, and the park lay sullen and black behind me.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- Volumnia's pet little scream acquires a considerable augmentation of reality from this surprise, and the house is quickly in commotion.†
Chpt 55-57
- The gloom augments; the bright gas springs up in the streets; and the pertinacious oil lamps which yet hold their ground there, with their source of life half frozen and half thawed, twinkle gaspingly like fiery fish out of water—as they are.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(augment) enlarge or increase