enhance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb increase
    heighten; raise.
    • This will enhance your enjoyment
    • heighten the tension
  2. verb make better or more attractive
    • This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat

WordNet

En*hance" transitive verb
Etymology
Norm. F. enhauncer, enhaucer, OF. enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (L. in) + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and E. advance. See Altitude, and cf. Hawser.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Enhanced ; present participle & verbal noun Enhancing
Definitions
  1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. Obs. Wyclif.
    Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.
  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.
    The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated. Southey.
En*hance" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Webster 1913