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   Aug·ment

   verb

   • 1. make (something) greater by adding to it; increase: "he augmented his summer income by painting houses"

   noun

   • 1. a vowel prefixed to past tenses of verbs in Greek and other Indo-European languages.

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French augmenter (verb), augment (noun), or late Latin augmentare, from Latin augere ‘to increase’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. augmenter noun

   Scrabble Points: 10

   • A

     1

   • U

     1

   • G

     2

   • M

     3

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • T

     1

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