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enlarge or increase- Our school district hired a new counselor to augment our college counseling service.
augment = enlarge or increase
- The purpose of this exercise is to augment the natural vocabulary growth that comes with reading.
- The recent speech augmented tensions in the Near East.
- They augmented their diet with fish caught from the river, and Tally roasted a rabbit on a fire she'd built herself.Scott Westerfeld -- Uglies
- The plan was for my squad to augment other units from different divisions on a hard push to Baghdad.Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John
- They had blasted away at us all the way down to these logs, and they had augmented their fire with aimed rocket-propelled grenades.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- ...it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it,Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
- ...no matter how cold the weather, she wore miniskirts to the salon. In the summer, she augmented that with skimpy halter tops; in the winter, tall leather boots.Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian
- Their footsteps beat then, on the wood, as though on the skin of an old, deep drum; they stamped to augment the effect,Gish Jen -- Typical American
- ...the careful division of scraps of food, augmented by what he could find in the fields.Lois Lowry -- The Giver
- he could do it without K.'s taking part, and K.'s presence would do nothing to augment the effect of it.Franz Kafka -- The Trial
- The Fremen guard that augmented the surviving Fedaykin took up stations around the room.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours ... of welcome;Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- A long day's dying, to augment our pain;John Milton -- Paradise Lost
- The guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendlinessJames Joyce -- Ulysses
- It served to augment a mental disturbance previously evident enough.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- When you inspect your little kingdom, you will find in it some little improvement, your flocks increased, and your subjects augmented,Daniel Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
- He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies:William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night
- Immediately a cordon of five thousand police, augmented by more than three thousand volunteers, was thrown about the Black Belt.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- with an augmented greetingWilliam Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra
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