Augmentative procedures include electrical stimulation or direct application of drugs to the nerves that are transmitting the pain signals.

English has no augmentative affixes ( and very few diminutive ones ). Some larger-than-normal intercity roads are called expressways, freeways, highways, motorways, parkways or turnpikes.

There are three types of invasive procedures that may be used to manage or treat pain: anatomic, augmentative, and ablative.

Immuno-augmentation therapy (IAT), also called immuno-augmentative or immuno-augmentive therapy, is a cancer treatment aimed at restoring the immune system with injections of a mixture of blood factors.

First used in 1618, from Italian; balcone, from balco "scaffold," from Langobardic *balko- "beam" (cf. Old English balca "beam, ridge," + It. augmentative suffix -one. Till c.1825, regularly accented on the second syllable.