All augment synonyms
aug·ment
A a verb augment
- improve — to bring into a more desirable or excellent condition: He took vitamins to improve his health.
- intensify — to make intense or more intense.
- multiply — to make many or manifold; increase the number, quantity, etc., of.
- reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
- build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
- heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
- inflate — deflate
- boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
- amplify — If you amplify a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.
- develop — When something develops, it grows or changes over a period of time and usually becomes more advanced, complete, or severe.
- strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
- raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
- swell — to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth.
- magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
- mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
- increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- sweeten — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
- pad — Packet Assembler/Disassembler
- build — If you build something, you make it by joining things together.
- compound — A compound is an enclosed area of land that is used for a particular purpose.
- progress — a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
- grow — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
- piggyback — on the back or shoulders: The little girl rode piggyback on her father.
- beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
noun augment
- aggrandizement — If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves.
- aggrandization — The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
- aggrandisement — an act or instance of aggrandizing, or increasing in size, or intensity: aggrandizement of mercantile trade in the early colonies.