enhance

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   increase

   This will enhance your enjoyment

2. 2
   verb

   make better or more attractive

   This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat

3. 3
   verb

   To lift, raise up.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To augment or make something greater.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To improve something by adding features.

   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.

6. 6
   verb

   To be raised up; to grow larger.

   A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

7. 7
   verb

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

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.