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▸ 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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augmentative,
building,
increasing,
enhance,
strengthen,
reaugment,
heighten,
aggrandize,
majorate,
amplify,
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