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addingverbpresent participle of add 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 adjoining, annexing, appending, subjoining, tacking (on) 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 to combine (numbers) into a single sumwhen she added all the phone charges herself, she discovered an error in her bill casting (up), footing (up), summating, summing, totaling(or totalling), totalizing, toting (up), totting (up) calculating, ciphering, computing, figuring, reckoning, tabling, tabulating, tallying, working outdividing, multiplying, subtractingcounting, enumerating, numbering, tellingrecomputing, refiguring putting together |