All 3 Uses of
augment
in
Light in August
- She went out of sight up the road: swollen, slow, deliberate, unhurried and tireless as augmenting afternoon itself.†
Chpt 1 *augmenting = enlarging or increasing
- Then it seemed to move, like something released slowly and without haste, in an augmenting swoop, and cleverly, since the eye was tricked into believing that the dingy shelves ranked with flyspecked tins, and the merchant himself behind the counter, had not moved; outraging, tricking sense.†
Chpt 13
- He stood quite still in the augmenting dawn, while thinking went quietly And this too is reserved for me, as Reverend Hightower says.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
enlarge or increase