Usually means: Increase or enhance by adding.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word augment:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. augment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. augment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. augment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. augment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. augment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Augment, augment: Wordnik
  7. augment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. augment: Wiktionary
  9. augment: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. augment: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. augment: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. augment: Dictionary.com
  13. augment: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. augment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Augment (Bantu languages), Augment (Erra album), Augment (Indo-European), Augment (Star Trek), Augment (album), Augment (app), Augment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Augment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. augment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. augment: Rhymezone
  19. augment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. augment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. augment: Free Dictionary
  22. augment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. augment: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. augment: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. augment: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. augment: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. augment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. augment: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. augment: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
verb:  (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
verb:  (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
noun:  (grammar) A grammatical prefix
noun:  (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
noun:  (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
noun:  (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
noun:  An increase.

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