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augment

/verb awg-ment; noun awg-ment/US // verb ɔgˈmɛnt; noun ˈɔg mɛnt //

增补,扩增,加大,增强

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make larger; enlarge in size, number, strength, or extent; increase: His salary is augmented by a small inheritance.
    • : Music. to raise by a half step.to double the note values of: In the fugue's development the subject is augmented.
    • : Grammar. to add an augment to.
    • : Heraldry. to grant an augmentation to.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become larger.
n.名词 noun
  1. 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.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbmake greater; improve
Forms: augmented, augmenting
Antonyms

Examples

  • Building on the core Xbox One controller, the Xbox Elite Series 2 features a host of augments and upgrades, including customizable buttons and swappable D-pads, to a wireless charging dock.

  • But Sex Box, with its ridiculous guinea pigs screwing conceit, will only augment our cultural hang-ups about sex.

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

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

  • SmartGlass will augment your gaming experience in a couple of ways.

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

  • Le nombre des Marchaux fut limit et non augment sous la Restoration.

  • The Secretary's remedy is to set them to raise provisions themselves, and thus augment the supply, while they diminish the demand.

  • But this one affection only served to augment the mischief that he wrought.

  • Evacuantia, L. Medicines which augment the secretions or excretions.

  • The duty of a being is to persevere in its being and even to augment the characteristics which specialize it.