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Definition of augment : 1. A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
2. Enlargement by addition; increase.
3. To add an augment to.
4. 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.
5. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

Synonyms:

subjoin, adjoin, aggrandize, rise, proliferate, mount, attach, escalate, run up, append, affix, sum up, soar, make up, upsurge, build, snowball, wax, cast up, join on, beef up, build up

aggregate, tally, accrue, annex, attain, acquire, total, add, sum, increase, increment, accumulate

elevate, raise, advance, extend, expand, maximize, burgeon, amplify, magnify, add to, inflate, fatten, heighten, study atincrease, widen, reinforce, lengthen, upgrade, grow, broaden, boost, multiply, enlarge

stretch, engorge, swell, thicken, distend, spread, dilate, develop

Usage examples:

• Remember that after printing had got well under way, type in other languages- Arabic, Greek, Hebrew- had to be developed in order that the literature of other languages might augment our own." - "Paul and the Printing Press", Sara Ware Bassett.
• Being accustomed to self- preservation, I was able to augment this diet with fish caught while sitting on the barren rocks of our sea- girt prison. - "Through Five Republics on Horseback", G. Whitfield Ray.
• I will do what I can to augment its numbers, but you must remember that our wants greatly exceed our resources. - "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Vol. 1 (of 2)", Jefferson Davis.