Exacerbate vs Augment - What's the difference?
exacerbate | augment |
To make worse (pain, anger, etc.); aggravate.
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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 lang=en terms the difference between exacerbate and augment
is that exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.As verbs the difference between exacerbate and augment
is that exacerbate is to make worse (pain, anger, etc); aggravate while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.As a noun augment is
(grammar) in some indo-european languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.exacerbate
English
Verb
(exacerbat)- The proposed shutdown would exacerbate unemployment problems.
- The reasons for this growing disconnect are myriad and complex but the situation is exacerbated by the reality that those English players who do smash through our game's "glass ceiling" command radically inflated transfer fees.
Derived terms
* exacerbatingly * exacerbationSee also
* exasperate ----augment
English
Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
