English Explanatory Dictionary

adstruct

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To improve something by augmentation or supplementation:
  2. To build on to an existing structure.
  3. To augment a grouping of things, to add material to a heap.
  4. To provide supportive evidence to the extent that the validity of a proposition is reinforced.

Word forms

adstruct adstructs adstructing adstructed

Etymology

From Latin past participle stem astruct- (“erected”), from verb astruo, from ad (“towards”) + struo (“pile up, build”).

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