to increase the size or value of something by adding something to it angļu valodā:

People striving to augment their welth.

But Sex Box, with its ridiculous guinea pigs screwing conceit, will only augment our cultural hang-ups about sex.

The money augmented his fortune

And so, knowledge from the past, mixed up with assumptions about that knowledge, which may be more or less appropriate, is used to augment information provided by the senses.