Augment: meaning, example and synonyms

Augmentv. To make something greater by adding to it; increase.

Example

To augment its modest budget, the observatory began renting telescope time to universities that lacked instruments of their own.

Part of speech: verb
Synonyms: increase, supplement, enlarge, boost
Antonyms: diminish, reduce, decrease, deplete
Memory tip: Augment comes from Latin augere, to increase; it adds to what exists.

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Question 1

To ______ the meager income from her teaching post, the poet translated technical manuals at night, work she found tedious but reliably paid.

Question 2

The researchers ______ their small sample with data from three regional hospitals, which tripled the number of patients in the study.

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