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tacking (on)verbpresent participle of tack (on) to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increasethe ticket agency tacked on a hefty surcharge to what was already a hefty price for the theater tickets adding, adjoining, annexing, appending, subjoining affixing, attaching, fastening, fixing, grafting, hitching, tagging, tying(or tieing)infusing, injecting, inserting, interfusing, introducingaggrandizing, amplifying, augmenting, beefing (up), boosting, compounding, enlarging, escalating, expanding, extending, increasing, multiplying, raising, swelling (up)elongating, lengthening, prolonging, protractingenhancing, heightening, intensifying, magnifyingcomplementing, supplementing, supplyingenforcing, reinforcing(also reenforcing), strengtheningmaximizing abating, bating, deducting, knocking off, removing, subtracting, taking off detaching, disconnecting, disjoining, separating, unfasteningamputating, cutting, excising, lopping (off), severingcontracting, decreasing, diminishing, lessening, lowering, reducingabbreviating, abridging, curtailing, shorteningcompressing, condensing, constricting, cutting back, retrenching |