ENHANCE

enhance, heighten, raise

(verb) increase; “This will enhance your enjoyment”; “heighten the tension”

enhance

(verb) make better or more attractive; “This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)

(obsolete) To lift, raise up.

To augment or make something greater.

To improve something by adding features.

(intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.

(radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Synonyms

• heighten

• See also improve

Source: Wiktionary

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En*hance", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enhanced; p. pr. & vb. n. Enhancing.] Etym: [Norm. F. enhauncer, enhaucer, OF. enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (L. in) + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and E. advance. See Altitude, and cf. Hawser.]

1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

2. 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. The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.

En*hance", v. i.

Definition: To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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