enhance
To augment or make something greater.
Verb 4 meanings
To augment or make something greater.
To improve something by adding features.
To be raised up; to grow larger.
“A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.”
To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
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.
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ENHANCE at a glance
ENHANCE has 7 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (E 1 + N 1 + H 4 + A 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 14 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,579 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with enhance
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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