Both Uses of
augment
in
Madame Bovary
- On him alone, then, she concentrated all the various hatreds that resulted from her boredom, and every effort to diminish only augmented it; for this useless trouble was added to the other reasons for despair, and contributed still more to the separation between them.
Chpt 2.5 *augmented = enlarged or increased
- It was Justin who had inspired her with this whim, by begging her to take him into her service as valet-de-chambre*, and if the privation of it did not lessen the pleasure of her arrival at each rendezvous, it certainly augmented the bitterness of the return.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(augment) enlarge or increase