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Definition

enlarge or increase

Our school 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.

augment = increase

The recent speech augmented tensions in the Near East.

augmented = increased

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

augmented = enlarged

The plan was for my squad to augment other units from different divisions on a hard push to Baghdad.
Nicholas Sparks -- Dear John

augment = add to (enlarge)

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

augmented = enlarged or increased

...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

augment = enlarge or increase

...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

augmented = added to the look

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

augment = enlarge or increase

...the careful division of scraps of food, augmented by what he could find in the fields.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

augmented = increased

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

augment = enlarge or increase

The Fremen guard that augmented the surviving Fedaykin took up stations around the room.
Frank Herbert -- Dune

augmented = enlarged or increased

The procession moved on, and still on, through ever augmenting splendours ... of welcome;
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper

augmenting = increased

A long day's dying, to augment our pain;
John Milton -- Paradise Lost

augment = enlarge or increase

The guarded glance of half solicitude half curiosity augmented by friendliness
James Joyce -- Ulysses

augmented = enhanced (enlarged)

It served to augment a mental disturbance previously evident enough.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

augment = enlarge or increase

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

augmented = increased

He does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map, with the augmentation of the Indies:
William Shakespeare -- Twelfth Night

augmentation = enlargement or increase

(editor's note: 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.)

Immediately a cordon of five thousand police, augmented by more than three thousand volunteers, was thrown about the Black Belt.
Richard Wright -- Native Son

augmented = enlarged

with an augmented greeting
William Shakespeare -- Antony and Cleopatra

augmented = great in degree (made larger than normal)

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