enhance

Verb

Verb Forms: enhanced, enhancing, enhances

To improve the quality, value, or extent of something.
increase
- "This will enhance your enjoyment"
make better or more attractive
- "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"
To lift, raise up.
To augment or make something greater.
To improve something by adding features.
To be raised up; to grow larger.
To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Examples

A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
He used his blank tile to ENHANCE a common word into a high-scoring bingo.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

heighten, raise

Antonyms

dehance

Scrabble Score: 12

enhance: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
enhance: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
enhance: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 14

enhance: valid Words With Friends Word