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aumentar — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • accrue verb To increase, to rise
  • augment verb To make something larger or stronger by adding to it.
  • boost noun Something that helps increase or improve a person's effort, confidence, or performance.
  • increase verb To become larger in amount, number, or degree.
  • rise verb To move upward or increase.

Senses

aumentar is used for these senses in English:

  • accrue (intransitive) To increase, to rise
  • crank up (idiomatic) To increase, as the volume, power or energy of something.
  • increase (transitive) To make (a quantity, etc.) larger.
  • rise (of a celestial body) To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
  • scale up To change a process in order to allow for greater quantities.
  • step up (transitive, idiomatic) To increase, augment, or advance, especially by one or more steps.

accrue — full definition

  1. verb To increase, to rise
  2. verb To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent.
  3. verb To be incurred as a result of the passage of time.
  4. verb To accumulate.

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