Definitions for augments

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augments aug·ment

Spelling: [verb awg-ment; noun awg-ment]

IPA: /verb ɔgˈmɛnt; noun ˈɔg mɛnt/

Augments is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in augments (aegmnstu).

Definitions for augments

noun

1. Grammar. a prefixed vowel or a lengthening of the initial vowel that characterizes certain forms in the nonpresent inflection of verbs in Greek, Sanskrit, Armenian, and Phrygian.

verb (used with object)

1. to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase:
2. Music. to raise (the upper note of an interval or chord) by a half step. to double the note values of (a theme):
3. Grammar. to add an augment to.
4. Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to (a coat of arms).

verb (used without object)

1. to become larger.

Origin of augments

1375-1425; late Middle English au(g)menten Anglo-French, Middle French au(g)menter Late Latin augmentāre to increase, derivative of augmentum an increase (aug(ēre) to increase (akin to

Examples for augments

We shall at least, by this means, be sensible of our ignorance, if we do not augment our knowledge.

"No doubt my augment Index will bear it out," he said bitterly.

He seems to have done an acceptable job in that posting, so why not just continue and augment the relationship?

At dinner, she instructed the waiter to augment the french fries her husband had ordered with a side of spinach.

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Those amendments, however, did but tend to augment their influence and their power.

In Switzerland the number of German firms is large and continues to augment.

France needed an American army at once to augment her man power.

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These are successful Americanizations of the culturally unique ancestors, and they augment what American cinema prizes.