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enhance.

To lift, raise up.

7 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/ɪnˈhɑːns/Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England/ɛnˈhɑːns/Received-Pronunciation, Southern-England/ɪnˈhæns/General-American/ɛnˈhæns/General-American
  1. To lift, raise up.

    obsolete
  2. To augment or make something greater.

  3. To improve something by adding features.

  4. To be raised up; to grow larger.

    intransitive
    A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
  5. To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Where this word comes from

From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.

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