augment
to make something greater by adding to it
Word origin: From Latin augere, to increase.
Augment in a sentence
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She took a second job to augment her modest income.
The university sought private donations to augment its shrinking research budget.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
Using “augment” well
Augment means to increase something by adding to what already exists. It implies supplementing an existing base rather than creating something new.
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