enhance
enhance is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accession
- accretion
- add
- additional
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggrandizement
- aggravate
- aggravation
- ahead
- ascend
- ascent
- augment
- augmentation
- crescendo
- deepen
- development
- dilatation
- dilate
- disperse
- dispersion
- enlarge
- enlargement
- exacerbate
- exacerbation
- exaggerate
- exaggeration
- exalt
- exasperate
- expand
- expansion
- extension
- flame
- flood
- fuel
- gain
- get
- grow
- growth
- heighten
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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