Usually means: Enhances or improves existing qualities.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. augments: Merriam-Webster
  2. augments: Collins English Dictionary
  3. augments: Vocabulary.com
  4. Augments, augments: Wordnik
  5. augments: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. augments: Wiktionary
  7. augments: Dictionary.com
  8. augments: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Augments, The Augments: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. augments: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. augments: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. augments: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (augment)

verb:  (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement.
verb:  (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
verb:  (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
verb:  (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
verb:  (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
noun:  (grammar) A grammatical prefix
noun:  (Indo-European languages) In some languages, a prefix *é- (अ- (a-) in Sanskrit, ἐ- (e-) in Greek) indicating a past tense of a verb.
noun:  (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
noun:  (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
noun:  An increase.
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