rus: усугублять

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Meaning
means	(verb) enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East" augment
means	(verb) add details to aggrandize, embellish, blow up, lard, dramatise, dramatize, aggrandise, embroider, pad
means	(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" overstate, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, amplify, overdraw, magnify
means	(verb) make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" increase