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Enhance [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

enh'ans. To be raised; to swell; to grow larger. A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Enhance [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. enh'ans.

2. To raise; to lift; applied to material things by Spenser, but this application is entirely obsolete.

3. To raise; to advance; to highthen; applied to price or value. War enhances the price of provisions; it enhances rents, and the value of lands.

4. To raise; applied to qualities, quantity, pleasures, enjoyments, etc. Pleasure is enhanced by the difficulty of obtaining it.

5. To increase; to aggravate. The guilt of a crime may be enhanced by circumstances.

Enhance [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Enhance [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To raise or lift up; to exalt.

2. 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.

Enhanced [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Raised; advanced; highthened; increased.

Enhanced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Enhance

Enhancement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Rise; increase; augmentation; as the enhancement of value, price, enjoyment, pleasure, beauty.

2. Increase; aggravation; as the enhancement of evil, grief, punishment, guilt or crime.

Enhancement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.

Enhancer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who enhances; he or that which raises price, etc.

Enhancer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount, price, etc.

Increase Roget’s Thesaurus §35

N. increase, augmentation, enlargement, extension, dilatation, increment, accretion, accession, development, growth, aggrandizement, aggravation, rise, ascent, exaggeration, exacerbation, spread, flood tide, gain, produce, product, profit

V. increase, augment, add to, enlarge, dilate, grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength, advance, run up, shoot up, rise, ascend, sprout, aggrandize, raise, exalt, deepen, heighten, strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, exacerbate, add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd, spread

Adj. increased, on the increase, undiminished, additional

Adv. crescendo

Phr. vires acquirit eundo

Improvement Roget’s Thesaurus §658

N. improvement, amelioration, melioration, # betterment, mend, amendment, emendation, mending, advancement, advance, ascent, promotion, preferment, elevation, increase, cultivation, civilization, culture, march of intellect, menticulture, race-culture, eugenics, reform, reformation, revision, radical reform, second thoughts, correction, limoe labor, refinement, elaboration, purification, oxidation, repair, recovery, revise, new edition, reformer, radical

V. improve, be better, become better, get better, mend, amend, advance, ascend, increase, fructify, ripen, mature, pick up, come about, rally, take a favorable turn, turn over a new leaf, turn the corner, raise one's head, sow one's wild oats, recover, be better, be improved by, turn to right account, turn to good account, turn to best account, profit by, reap the benefit of, make good use of, make capital out of, place to good account, render better, improve, mend, amend, better, ameliorate, meliorate, correct, decrassify, improve upon, refine upon, rectify, enrich, mellow, elaborate, fatten, promote, cultivate, advance, forward, enhance, bring forward, bring on, foster, invigorate, touch up, rub up, brush up, furbish up, bolster up, vamp up, brighten up, warm up, polish, cook, make the most of, set off to advantage, prune, repair, put in order, review, revise, make corrections, make improvements, doctor, purify, &c. 652, relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit, reform, remodel, reorganize, new model, view in a new light, think better of, appeal from philip drunk to philip sober, palliate, mitigate, lessen an evil

Adj. improving, progressive, improved, better, better off, better for, all the better for, better advised, reformatory, emendatory, reparatory, remedial, corrigible, improvable, accultural, adv, on consideration, on reconsideration, on second thoughts, on better advice, ad melius inquirendum, phr, urbent latericiam invenit marmoream reliquit