augment
/ɔɡˈmɛnt/ verbe C2En français : augmenter, s'accroître, s'agrandir, élargir le mouvement
- To increase; to make larger or supplement. · The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
- To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- To add an augment to.
He/she/it augments · Prétérit augmented · Participe passé augmented · Forme en -ing augmenting
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- augment
- He/she/it
- augments
- Prétérit
- augmented
- Participe passé
- augmented
- Forme en -ing
- augmenting
Dans la bibliothèque
The obscurity augmented the acuteness of his hearing; at the slightest sound he rose and hastened to the door, convinced they were about to liberate him, but the sound died away, and Dantès sank again into his seat.
Having reached the summit of a rock, he saw, a thousand feet beneath him, his companions, whom Jacopo had rejoined, and who were all busy preparing the repast which Edmond’s skill as a marksman had augmented with a capital dish.
The former Dantès proposed to augment, the latter to remedy.
“Yes, he has a wife, who through everything has behaved like an angel; he has a daughter, who was about to marry the man she loved, but whose family now will not allow him to wed the daughter of a ruined man; he has, besides, a son, a lieutenant in the army; and, as you may suppose, all this, instead of lessening, only augments his sorrows.
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