All 3 Uses of
augment
in
Billy Budd
- He deeply felt, he added, the serious responsibility assumed in making a report involving such possible consequences to the individual mainly concerned, besides tending to augment those natural anxieties which every naval commander must feel in view of extraordinary outbreaks so recent as those which, he sorrowfully said it, it needed not to name.†
Chpt 18
- It served to augment a mental disturbance previously evident enough.
Chpt 21 *augment = enlarge or increase
- And the more that some sort of trouble should really be apprehended the more do the officers keep that apprehension to themselves; tho' not the less unostentatious vigilance may be augmented.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(augment) enlarge or increase