enhance

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈhɑːns/

The English word “enhance” has 5 meanings listed here.

verb

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).

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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