Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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augment

UK /ɔːɡˈmɛnt/ · US /ɔɡˈmɛnt/ verb, noun

Forms augments augmenting augmented

  1. verb (transitive) To increase; to make larger or supplement. “The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.”
  2. verb (intransitive, reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
  3. verb (music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
  4. verb (music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
  5. verb (grammar, transitive) To add an augment to.
  6. 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. “The augment is found in Greek, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Phrygian.”
  7. noun (Celtic languages) Especially Old Irish, a preverb, usually ro-, used to give a verb a resultative or potential meaning.
  8. noun (Bantu languages) In some languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
  9. noun An increase.

Synonyms

add amplify dilate eke / eke out elevate embiggen enhance enlarge enlargen enrich greaten grow increase increment largen magnify propagate raise strengthen swell

Antonyms

contract dial back diminish

Etymology

From Middle English augmenten, from Middle French augmenter, from Old French augmenter, from Late Latin augmentare (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“an increase, growth”), from augere (“to increase”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
  2. verb To add an augment to.
  3. verb To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
  4. noun Enlargement by addition; increase.

Etymology [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.]

Etymology [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “augment”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “augment” (best matches first).

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