Complementing and Augment

verb

• Enlarge or increase.
  • usage: "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
• Grow or intensify.
  • usage: "The pressure augmented"

• (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
• (v.t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
• (v.i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
• (n.) A vowel prefixed or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
• (v.t.) To add an augment to.