The act or process of augmenting.
A surgical procedure to enlarge a body part, as breast augmentation.
A particular mark of honour, granted by the sovereign in consideration of some noble action, or by favour; and either quartered with the family arms, or on an escutcheon or canton.
The stage of a disease during which symptoms increase or continue.
A compositional technique where the composer lengthens the melody by lengthening its note values.
An increase of stipend obtained by a parish minister by an action raised in the Court of Teinds against the titular and heritors.
Shy and retiring.
The act of one who, or that which, shrinks; act of becoming smaller or moving timidly away.