adstruct

To improve something by augmentation or supplementation:

Verb

  1. To improve something by augmentation or supplementation:
    • Since my little house will no longer accomodate my growing family, I plan to adstruct it by means of an addition.

    1. To build on to an existing structure.

    2. To augment a grouping of things, to add material to a heap.

      • I haven't as much dirt in this pile as I would like; I think that I shall adstruct it by shovelling more dirt on top.
  2. : To provide supportive evidence to the extent that the validity of a proposition is reinforced.
    • ...though he not infrequently presents new and at first sight amazing combinations, Furnee always adduces phonetic and semantic evidence as well as historical considerations to adstruct those combinations which are not...

Origin

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

Forms

adstructs adstructing adstructed