| VERB | change | enhance, heighten, raise | increase / increase |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | enhance | make better or more attractive |
| Sounds | ehnhhae'ns | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | advance ... trance: 20 rhymes with aens... | |
| Meaning | increase / increase. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This will enhance your enjoyment" | |
| Synonyms | heighten, raise | |
| Narrower | potentiate | increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) |
| Broader | intensify, compound, heighten, deepen | make more intense, stronger, or more marked |
| Spanish | intensificar, realzar | |
| Catalan | enaltir, intensificar, realçar | |
| Adjectives | enhancive | intensifying by augmentation and enhancement |
| Meaning | make better or more attractive. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat" | |
| Narrower | follow up | increase the effectiveness or success of by further action |
| touch up, retouch | alter so as to produce a more desirable appearance | |
| Broader | better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate | To make better |
| Spanish | aumentar, destacar, realzar | |
| Catalan | destacar, realçar | |
| Adjectives | enhancive | serving an aesthetic purpose in beautifying the body |
| Nouns | enhancement | an improvement that makes something more agreeable |
| enhancer | anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | |
©2001-25 · HyperDic hyper-dictionary · Contact