augment

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
  2. Verb.  (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
  3. Verb.  (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
  4. Verb.  (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
  5. Noun.  (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix ''e-'' (''a-'' in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.

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