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Answer : ADD
add – v
make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; “We added two students to that dorm room”; “She added a personal note to her letter”; “Add insult to injury”; “Add some extra plates to the dinner table”
constitute an addition; “This paper will add to her reputation”
SYNONYMS
adjoin, annex, append, subjoin, tack (on), affix, attach, fasten, fix, graft, hitch, tag, tie
infuse, inject, insert, interfuse, introduce
EXAMPLES
“Once we have a sheriff’s salary coming in, maybe we can add a little to their budget—until they get settled.”
“The moon will not sour milk nor taint meat of mine, nor will the sun injure my furniture or fade my carpet; and if he is sometimes too warm a friend, I find it still better economy to retreat behind some curtain which nature has provided, than to add a single item to the details of housekeeping.”
“While not confining myself to any special system of instruction, I have tried to add to her general information and intelligence, to enlarge her acquaintance with things around her, and to bring her into easy and natural relations with people.”
ETYMOLOGY
late 14c., “to join or unite (something to something else),” from Latin addere “add to, join, attach, place upon,” literal and figurative, from ad “to” (see ad-) + -dere, combining form meaning “to put, place,” from dare “to give” (from PIE root *do- “to give”).
Intransitive meaning “to do sums, do addition” also is from late 14c. Related: Added; adding. To add up is from 1754; in the figurative meaning “make sense,” 1942. Adding machine “machine to cast up large sums” is from 1822.
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