Augment vs Distend - What's the difference?
augment | distend | Related terms |
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.
To extend or expand, as from internal pressure; to swell
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(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To extend; to stretch out; to spread out.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):
* Milton
To cause to swell.
(biology) To cause gravidity.
In transitive terms the difference between augment and distend
is that augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement while distend is to cause to swell.As a noun augment
is in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
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* ----distend
English
Verb
(en verb)- These impure and frail matters are conteined within the angust concave of the Lunar Orb, above which with uninterrupted Series the things Celestial distend themselves.
- But say, what mean those coloured streaks in heaven / Distended as the brow of God appeased?
