The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word AUGMENT
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More clues leading to the result AUGMENT
- Increase time beyond a month, chaps
- Get bigger people to stand in for us during month
- Add to men relieving us in some 31 days?
- Swell chaps replacing us in a month
- Swell fellows standing in for us during holiday month?
- Swell chaps ending in debt after a month
- Add to gold metal initially imported by man
- To grow, men replace us in a month
- Increase millions invested by chap chasing gold
- Soldiers, during month after US withdrawal, increase
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What does AUGMENT mean?
AUGMENT noun- (grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
- (grammar) In some Bantu languages, an additional vowel prepended to the noun prefix.
- An increase.
- To increase; to make larger or supplement.
- To grow; to increase; to become greater.
- To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
- To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
- (grammar) To add an augment to.