All 5 Uses of
augment
in
The Lone Star Ranger
- On one side, then, was this physical torture; on the other the old hell, terribly augmented at this crisis, in his mind.†
Chpt 12augmented = enlarged or increased
- For years the daytime, with its birth of sunrise on through long hours to the ruddy close, had been used for sleep or rest in some rocky hole or willow brake or deserted hut, had been hated because it augmented danger of pursuit, because it drove the fugitive to lonely, wretched hiding; now the dawn was a greeting, a promise of another day to ride, to plan, to remember, and sun, wind, cloud, rain, sky—all were joys to him, somehow speaking his freedom.†
Chpt 15
- But Duane's years on the border had augmented a natural instinct or gift to read character, or at least to sense the evil in men; and he knew at once that these strangers were dishonest.†
Chpt 15 *
- "We had to submit to a damnable outrage," added Lawson, passionately, as if the sound of his voice augmented his feeling.†
Chpt 17
- But it was still there in his mind, and now it stalked out, worse, more powerful, magnified by its rest, augmented by the violent passions peculiar and inevitable to that strange, wild product of the Texas frontier—the gun-fighter.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
enlarge or increase