VERB | change | enhance, heighten, raise | increase / increase |
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change | enhance | make better or more attractive |
Sounds | ehnhhae'ns | |
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Rhymes | advance ... trance: 20 rhymes with aens... |
Meaning | increase / increase. | |
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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. | |
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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 |
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