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
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).
• heighten
• See also improve
Source: Wiktionary
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
3 May 2025
(adjective) worth having or seeking or achieving; “a desirable job”; “computer with many desirable features”; “a desirable outcome”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
