enhance
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
enhance (enhances, present participle enhancing; 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.
- To improve something by adding features.
- (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
- (radiology) To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
- heighten
- See also Thesaurus:improve
- French: augmenter, accroître
- German: erhöhen, vergrößern
- Italian: accrescere, intensificare, incrementare, avanzare, sviluppare
- Portuguese: aumentar
- Russian: увели́чивать
- Spanish: aumentar
- French: améliorer
- German: verbessern
- Italian: migliorare, arricchire, potenziare, progredire
- Portuguese: melhorar
- Russian: улучша́ть
- Spanish: realzar
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