enhance
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Etymology[edit]
Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Old French enhaucier (“make greater”), from Late Latin *inaltare (“exalt”), from Latin in + altus (“high”).
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Verb[edit]
enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)
- (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:
- To augment or make something greater.
- 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
- 2000, Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope, page 155
- To improve something by adding features.
- 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.
- 1986, Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English, page 192
- (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:improve
Translations[edit]
augment or make something greater
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improve something by adding features
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