1. augment - Noun
2. augment - Verb
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.
To add an augment to.
To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Enlargement by addition; increase.
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe need to augment and amend the existing body of classical and neoclassical economic theory to achieve a more realistic picture of economic process. Herbert Simon
There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier. Benjamin Franklin
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. Cyrus the Great
Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production. David Ricardo
The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question... if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual. Jeremy Bentham
Payoff will come when we make better use of computers to bring communities of people together and to augment the very human skills that people bring to bear on difficult problems. Douglas Engelbart