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addverb to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increasethe band recently added a saxophonist and a keyboard player to its ranks add another cup of flour to the mixture adjoin, annex, append, subjoin, tack (on) affix, attach, fasten, fix, graft, hitch, tag, tieinfuse, inject, insert, interfuse, introduceaggrandize, amplify, augment, beef (up), boost, compound, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, increase, multiply, raise, swell (up)elongate, lengthen, prolong, protractenhance, heighten, intensify, magnifycomplement, supplement, supplyenforce, reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenmaximize abate, bate, deduct, knock off, remove, subtract, take off detach, disconnect, disjoin, separate, unfastenamputate, cut, excise, lop (off), severcontract, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduceabbreviate, abridge, curtail, shortencompress, condense, constrict, cut back, retrench to combine (numbers) into a single sumwhen she added all the phone charges herself, she discovered an error in her bill cast (up), foot (up), sum, summate, tot (up), total, totalize, tote (up) calculate, cipher, compute, figure, reckon, table, tabulate, tally, work outdivide, multiply, subtractcount, enumerate, number, tellrecompute, refigure put together in the 14th century |