All 5 Uses of
augment
in
David Copperfield
- It was a great augmentation of my uneasiness to be bereaved, at this eventful crisis, of the inestimable services of Miss Mills.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived — and I was touched by it — with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.†
Chpt 46-48
- It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect.†
Chpt 49-51
- If the events I go on to relate, had not thickened around me, in the beginning to confuse, and in the end to augment, my affliction, it is possible (though I think not probable), that I might have fallen at once into this condition.†
Chpt 52-54
- She, who so gloried in my fame, and so looked forward to its augmentation, well knew that I would labour on.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(augment) enlarge or increase