AUGMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does augment mean? 

• AUGMENT (verb)
  The verb AUGMENT has 2 senses:

1. enlarge or increase

2. grow or intensify

  Familiarity information: AUGMENT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUGMENT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they augment    ... he / she / it augments   
Past simple: augmented   
Past participle: augmented   
-ing form: augmenting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enlarge or increase

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East

Hypernyms (to "augment" is one way to...):

increase (make bigger or more)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

augmentation (the act of augmenting)

augmentation (the amount by which something increases)

augmentative (intensifying by augmentation and enhancement)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grow or intensify

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The pressure augmented

Hypernyms (to "augment" is one way to...):

grow (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

augmentation (the amount by which something increases)

augmentative (intensifying by augmentation and enhancement)

 Context examples 

GM-CSF also promotes antigen presentation, up-regulates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), and increases interleukin-2-mediated lymphokine-activated killer cell function; it may also augment host antitumoral immunity.

(GM-K562 Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

The concomitant administration of a cancer peptide vaccine may benefit from an already activated immune system and may augment an immune response against the administered tumor associated antigen(s).

(Gag:267-274 Peptide Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous gp100-pulsed PBL have been administered to melanoma patients in order to augment cytotoxic immune responses to melanoma.

(gp100-Pulsed Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cell, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent also promotes antigen presentation, up-regulates antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), and increases interleukin-2-mediated lymphokine-activated killer cell function and may augment host antitumoral immunity.

(GVAX Lung Cancer Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Adjuvants augment, stimulate, activate, potentiate, or modulate the immune response at either the cellular or humoral level.

(Immunoadjuvant, NCI Thesaurus)

It is often used in place of or to augment the effectiveness of analgesics.

(Electroanalgesia, NCI Thesaurus)

Lymphocytes from the original stem cell donor are given to the HSCT recipient, after the transplant, to augment an antitumor immune response (graft-versus-tumor), or ensure that the donor stem cells remain engrafted.

(Donor Cellular Infusion, NCI Thesaurus)

As a potential immunotherapeutic agent, recombinant IL-4 also augments the effects of other cytokines on dendritic cells (DC), cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL).

(Binetrakin, NCI Thesaurus)

CD4 is a accessory protein for MHC class-II antigen/T-cell receptor interaction and functions to initiate or augment the early phase of T-cell activation.

(CD4 Antigen, NCI Thesaurus)

She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was no part of her disposition.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)