Synonyms for augment
Definitions
- v. 1
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
Related words
- Word family
- augmentary augmentation august
- Is a kind of
- alter
Forms
- Past participle
- augmented
e.g. augmented → enhanced, increased, amplified, added…
Choose the right word
To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- add Do you know how to add new contacts to this phone?
- increase It cannot be denied that crime is on the increase.
- enhance Algeria needs to enhance its regional connectivity.
- amplify I just want to amplify my understanding of the world.
- extend I want to extend my stay here for a few more days.
- strengthen We must strengthen the ties between our countries.
By length
- 2 letters
- up1
- 3 letters
- add1
- 4 letters
- grow1
- 5 letters
- raise1, swell1
- 6 letters
- extend2, enrich2, dilate2
- 7 letters
- enhance2, elevate3, amplify3, enlarge2, magnify3
- 8 letters
- increase2, heighten2
- 9 letters
- intensify4, increment3, aggravate3
- 10 letters
- strengthen2, aggrandize3, aggrandise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (extend2 = 2 syllables).