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How to pronounce augmentative in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms enhancive
Derivation augment
Type Words


`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'.

Examples of augmentative

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Neural augmentative surgeries are used to stimulate the affected nerve.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Work on augmentative communications technology became the basis for many of Kushler's breakthroughs.
From the cnn.com
I don't think it to be an occurrence of the augmentative.
From the economist.com
Theirs is a silence that cannot be mended by additional speech therapy or augmentative alternative communication devices.
From the ocregister.com
There are numerous productive suffixes for diminutive, augmentative, pejorative, attenuating etc., which are also used to create neologisms.
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There are numerous productive suffixes for diminutive, augmentative, pejorative, attenuating etc., which are also used to crate neologisms.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Non-speaking people with CP are often successful availing themselves of augmentative and alternative communication systems such as Blissymbols.
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Thresher and Bissonnette suffered in silence for much of their lives, until the advent of what's known as augmentative or alternative communication devices.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'"
  • Intensifying by augmentation and enhancement
  • An augmentative (abbreviated) is a morphological form of a word which expresses greater intensity, often in size, but also in other attributes. It is the opposite of a diminutive.
  • Augmentative communication