Word Meanings - ENHANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

en- + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and 1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser. 2. To advance;

Additional info about word: ENHANCE

en- + haucier to lift, raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf. Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and 1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENHANCE)

• Enrich
• Aggrandize
• endow
• store
• augment
• fertilize
• decorate
• enhance
• Heighten
• Exalt
• increase
• intensify
• color
• vivify
• aggravate
• raise
• exaggerate
• lift up
• amplify
• Raise
• Lift
• heave
• elevate
• exalt
• advance
• promote
• heighten
• awaken
• rouse
• excite
• call forth
• cultivate
• rear
• produce
• collect
• summon
• erect
• originate
• propagate
• Swell
• Dilate
• extend
• enlarges
• rise
• expand
• protuberate
• distend

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENHANCE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

Related words: (words related to ENHANCE)

• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• INTENSIFY
  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• VIVIFY
  To endue with life; to make to be living; to quicken; to animate. Sitting on eggs doth vivify, not nourish. Bacon. (more info) Etym:
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• RAISE
  To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• RAISED
  1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• FORTHCOMING
  Ready or about to appear; making appearance.
• FORTHY
  Therefore. Spenser.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• TROUSERING
  Cloth or material for making trousers.
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• TROUSE
  Trousers. Spenser.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.