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Enhance Common

Origin: Latin suffix -ance

Enhance has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Verb

Definitions
Verb
1

increase

"This will enhance your enjoyment"

"heighten the tension"

2

make better or more attractive

"This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

3

To lift, raise up.

"She lifted and enhanced the heavy sofa to get it through the narrow doorway."

In plain English: To enhance something means to make it better or stronger than it was before.

"Adding some spices will enhance the flavor of this soup."

Usage: Enhance means to improve the quality, value, or extent of something, not to physically lift it into the air. Use this word when describing actions that make an existing situation better rather than moving objects upward.

Example Sentences
"Adding some spices will enhance the flavor of this soup." verb
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
intensify better
Narrower Terms (hyponyms)
potentiate follow up touch up

Origin

The word "enhance" comes from the Anglo-Norman term for raising something, which itself traces back to a Vulgar Latin phrase meaning "to make high." It entered English through Middle English with this original sense of lifting or elevating in status or quality.

Rhyming Words
nce ance ince unce ence once vince sence ponce nance munce vance dunce hence bonce ounce nonce gance dance vonce
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