Sample Sentences for
augment
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    He had brought along a sack of chilies, and he dumped them liberally into his beans, feeling free to augment the dish with pieces of whatever varmints strayed into his path—rattlesnakes mostly, with an occasional armadillo.  (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
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    No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.  (source)
    augment = add to (increase the number of)
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    ...the careful division of scraps of food, augmented by what he could find in the fields.  (source)
    augmented = increased
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    The Fremen guard that augmented the surviving Fedaykin took up stations around the room.  (source)
    augmented = enlarged or increased
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    Their footsteps beat then, on the wood, as though on the skin of an old, deep drum; they stamped to augment the effect,  (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
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    augmenting the dose  (source)
    augmenting = increasing
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    I wasn't sure what the friction of decelerating would do to my armor, or to me; I had some skeletal and muscular augmentation, but whether it would be sufficient for this, I had no idea.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    as you may suppose, all this, instead of lessening, only augments his sorrows.  (source)
    augments = increases
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    She had not congratulated this young lady on her augmentations and begged to be excused from doing so.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    The lyrics for each section were preceded by a paragraph of prose that augmented the narrative laid out in the lyrics.  (source)
    augmented = enhanced
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    ...it was she of all the world who must uphold him in his misery and not augment it,  (source)
    augment = enlarge or increase
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    The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours ... of welcome;  (source)
    augmenting = increased
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    Apart from the spelling mistakes, the last line—Hope you will enjoy this recipe—was Estha's only augmentation of the original text.†  (source)
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