Enhance

Verb

 * 1)  To lift, raise up.
 * 2) *1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
 * nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
 * 1) To augment or make something greater.
 * 2) * 2000, Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope, page 155
 * A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
 * 1) To improve something by adding features.
 * 2) * 1986, Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English, page 192
 * A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.

Adverbs for Enhance
enormously; vastly; radically; inexpressibly; fascinatingly; consequently; attractively.

Synonyms for Enhance
improve, increase, augment, magnify, raise, intensify, advance, elevate, heighten, swell, aggravate.

Antonyms for Enhance
diminish, reduce, lower, assuage, shrink, degrade.

Thesaurus
accelerate, acculturate, add to, adorn, advance, agent provocateur, aggravate, ameliorate, amend, amplify, annoy, augment, beautify, become, beef up, better, blow up, boost, bring forward, build up, civilize, complement, complicate, concentrate, condense, consolidate, deepen, deteriorate, double, edify, educate, elevate, embellish, embitter, embroider, emend, enlarge, enlarge upon, enlighten, enrich, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, fatten, favor, forward, foster, go straight, heat up, heighten, hop up, hot up, improve, improve upon, increase, intensify, irritate, jazz up, key up, lard, lift, magnify, make acute, make an improvement, make complex, make worse, meliorate, mend, mount, nurture, promote, provoke, raise, ramify, redouble, refine upon, reform, reinforce, rise, rouse, sharpen, socialize, soup up, sour, step up, straighten out, strengthen, suit, swell, transfigure, transform, triple, upgrade, uplift, whet, worsen

Etymology
enhauncen:, from enhauncer:, from  enhaucier:, from  *undefined:, from  in: + altus:.

Pronunciation

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