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AUGMENTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Added to or made greater in amount or number or strength
Example:
a greatly augmented collection of books
Classified under:
Similar:
increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb augment
Context examples:
—were questions now eagerly poured forth; the first three received a ready affirmative, the two others were passed by; and Catherine's interest in the deceased Mrs. Tilney augmented with every question, whether answered or not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An augmented unipolar electrocardiogram limb lead in which the positive (white) electrode is situated on the right thoracic limb and the negative electrode is a combination of the left thoracic limb (black) electrode and the left pelvic limb (red) electrode.
(Augmented Vector Right, NCI Thesaurus)
And this consideration leads me moreover to reflect, with augmented satisfaction, on a certain event of last November; for had it been otherwise, I must have been involved in all your sorrow and disgrace.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
An augmented unipolar electrocardiogram limb lead in which the positive (red) electrode is situated on the left pelvic limb and the negative electrode is a combination of the right thoracic limb (white) electrode and the left thoracic limb (black) electrode.
(Augmented Vector Foot, NCI Thesaurus)
THESE assured him that his exertion had produced an increase of good-will towards himself, and THESE gave Elinor hopes of its being farther augmented hereafter; but Mrs. Jennings, who knew nothing of all this, who knew only that the Colonel continued as grave as ever, and that she could neither prevail on him to make the offer himself, nor commission her to make it for him, began, at the end of two days, to think that, instead of Midsummer, they would not be married till Michaelmas, and by the end of a week that it would not be a match at all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
“Though harrowing to myself to mention, the alienation of Mr. Micawber (formerly so domesticated) from his wife and family, is the cause of my addressing my unhappy appeal to Mr. Traddles, and soliciting his best indulgence. Mr. T. can form no adequate idea of the change in Mr. Micawber's conduct, of his wildness, of his violence. It has gradually augmented, until it assumes the appearance of aberration of intellect. Scarcely a day passes, I assure Mr. Traddles, on which some paroxysm does not take place. Mr. T. will not require me to depict my feelings, when I inform him that I have become accustomed to hear Mr. Micawber assert that he has sold himself to the D. Mystery and secrecy have long been his principal characteristic, have long replaced unlimited confidence. The slightest provocation, even being asked if there is anything he would prefer for dinner, causes him to express a wish for a separation. Last night, on being childishly solicited for twopence, to buy “lemon-stunners”—a local sweetmeat—he presented an oyster-knife at the twins!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Yet I fear that the same feelings now exist that made you so miserable a year ago, even perhaps augmented by time.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But it was augmented and rendered sublime by the mighty Alps, whose white and shining pyramids and domes towered above all, as belonging to another earth, the habitations of another race of beings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he asked to see them and then himself corrected and augmented them in many places, but principally in giving the life and spirit to the conversations he held with his enemy.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
