Accumulate vs Augment - What's the difference?
accumulate | augment |
To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass.
To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.
* Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates , and men decay. -
(poetic, rare) Collected; accumulated.
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
In transitive terms the difference between accumulate and augment
is that accumulate is to heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.As an adjective accumulate
is collected; accumulated.As a noun augment is
in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.accumulate
English
Verb
(accumulat)- He wishes to accumulate a sum of money.
Synonyms
* collect * pile up * store * amass * gather * aggregate * heap together * hoard * proliferateAdjective
(-)External links
* * ----augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
