Augment
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
(2): (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
(3): (v. t.) To add an augment to.
(4): (v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
(5): (n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
King James Dictionary [2]
Augment', L. augmento, augmentum, from augeo, auxi, to increase Gr. It seems to be the Eng. to wax, or to eke.
1. To increase to enlarge in size or extent to swell to make bigger as, to augment an army, by reinforcement rain augments a stream. 2. To increase or swell the degree, amount or magnitude as, impatience augments an evil.
Augment', To increase to grow larger as, a stream augments by rain.
