(linguistics) Changing the meaning to one that is a larger, more complete, or more elaborate version of the original sense.
Serving to augment, enhance, or increase; augmentative.
Supplementary; additional.
noun
(linguistics) An augmentive affix; augmentative.
Something that augments.
automating
automating
verb
present participle of automate
cumulating
cumulating
verb
present participle of cumulate
designatum
designatum
noun
(semantics) That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
disaugment
exhumating
exhumating
verb
present participle of exhumate
fumigating
fumigating
verb
present participle of fumigate
fumigation
fumigation
noun
The act of fumigating, or applying smoke or vapor, as for disinfection.
Vapor raised in the process of fumigating.
gitanemuck
glutaminic
glutaminic
adj
Related to, or derived from glutamine
gnathidium
gnathidium
noun
(zoology) The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked.
impinguate
impinguate
verb
(obsolete) To fatten; to make fat.
kuomintang
kuomintang
Proper noun
A nationalist political party in pre-Communist China that ruled China from 1928 until the Communists overthrew it in 1949, and was subsequently the major administrative party of Taiwan.
ligamentum
lutemaking
lutemaking
noun
The manufacture of lutes.
maculating
maculating
verb
present participle of maculate
magnitudes
magnitudes
noun
plural of magnitude
manhunting
manhunting
noun
Organized searching for a criminal or enemy.
maturating
maturating
verb
present participle of maturate
modulating
modulating
verb
present participle of modulate
mutilating
mutilating
verb
present participle of mutilate
numerating
numerating
verb
present participle of numerate
outbeaming
outbeaming
adj
Shining outward.
outflaming
outflaming
verb
present participle of outflame
outmanning
outmanning
verb
present participle of outman
outshaming
outshaming
verb
present participle of outshame
pumicating
pumicating
verb
present participle of pumicate
ruminating
ruminating
noun
An act of pondering over, meditation, or reflection.