English Explanatory Dictionary

enhance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ɪnˈhɑːns/ /ɪnˈhæns/ /ɛnˈhæns/ en-us-enhance.ogg en-GB-enhance.ogg

Word forms

enhance enhances enhancing enhanced inhance enhaunce inhaunce

Etymology

From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.

Synonyms

heighten

Antonyms

dehance

Derived words

bioenhance enhanceable enhancement enhanceosome enhancer enhancive hyperenhance hypoenhance isoenhance photoenhance
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