Enhance

/ɪnˈhɑːns/ · verb

Meaning

(obsolete) To lift, raise up..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
2. To augment or make something greater.
3. To improve something by adding features.
4. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
5. (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Example Sentences

nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.

They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.

A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution

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.

The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.

A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

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Word Forms

• enhances
• enhancing
• enhanced
• inhance
• enhaunce
• inhaunce

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