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Making something bigger, better, or louder without admitting the original wasn't enough.
means The act of adding to something to increase its size, value, or power — more of what was already there.
from From Latin augmentare, 'to increase,' built on augere, 'to make grow' — the same ancient root that gave us 'author' and 'auction' (where bids only go up). It passed through French before settling into English in the 14th century, already carrying its sense of enlargement.
- music term
- stretching a melody's note values to sound grander
- grammar term
- adding emphasis, like calling a house a mansion
- surgery euphemism
- the polite word for implants
- legal sense
- increasing a sentence or damages awarded