Enhance
[ɪn'hɑːns;-hæns;en-] or [ɪn'hæns]
Definition
(verb.) increase; 'This will enhance your enjoyment'; 'heighten the tension'.
(verb.) make better or more attractive; 'This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.
(v. t.) To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also, to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance crime.
(v. i.) To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Raise (as price), advance, heighten, swell.[2]. Increase, augment, aggravate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See DEPRECIATE]
Typist: Shane
Definition
v.t. to heighten: to add to increase.—n. Enhance′ment act of enhancing: state of being enhanced: aggravation.
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Examples
- But this memory of past discontent only served to enhance her present joy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Riches became mine, wealth poured in upon me, and I rioted in pleasures enhanced a thousandfold to me by the consciousness of my well-kept secret. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- While thus lessening the cost of time-keepers their value has been enhanced by increasing their accuracy and durability. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The increasing facilities of communication enhanced this tendency and depleted Dublin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Night was setting in, and its bleakness was enhanced by the contrast of the pictured fire glowing and gleaming in the window-pane. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This greatly increased the price of diamonds, but enhanced their brilliancy. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- When full grown the Big Trees are proportionate and symmetrical in girth and height and the beauty of the tree is enhanced by flutings that traverse the bark from the base to the apex. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The impatience of Cedric had been rather enhanced than diminished by his confinement. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Thus the Bosom; accomplished in the art of seeming to make things of small account, and really enhancing them in the process. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In those days public opinion was not so alive as now to the desirability of preserving shade-trees, and of enhancing the beauty of a city instead of destroying it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Here were two machines destined to be joined together, economizing space, enhancing economy, augmenting capacity, reducing investment, and increasing dividends. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Wordsworth at times postponed the description of a scene that appealed to his poetic fancy with the express purpose of blurring the outlines, but enhancing the personal factor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Bringing these connections or implications to consciousness enhances the meaning of the experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is also well to place a paper soaked in the salicylic acid solution on the top of them, which greatly enhances the preserving effect. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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