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Enhance v. t. (past & past part. enhanced; pres. part. enhancing)

To raise or lift up; to exalt. (Obs.) "Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced."

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."

Enhance v. i. To be raised up; to grow larger; as, a debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

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"Enhance" Quotes from Famous Books

... the purpose of effecting some trifling repairs, which, though not essential to the safety of the ship, will nevertheless naturally enhance the comfort of its inmates. This you will understand when I tell you that in consequence of these same defects I have had water an inch or two deep in my cabin, wish-washing about ever ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... how easy it is to enhance the looks by the simple method of touching up the eyes with kohl and covering ...

— The Hawk of Egypt • Joan Conquest

... many thoughtful citizens that the peculiar economic effect of the income tax on so-called capital gains at the present rate is to enhance speculative inflation and likewise impede business recovery. I believe this to be the case and I recommend that a study be made of the economic effects of this tax and of its relation to the general structure of our income ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... Richard Cromwell and his brother Henry, who had been Lieutenant of Ireland, they had managed to hold their places and authority, and when Ludlow's power crumbled it was a race between them who might first proffer their obedience to the King, and enhance the value of that obedience by most effective promises. They watched assiduously the action of Monk. Each was anxious that his offers might be concealed from his rival. Each managed to secure some informal recognition of his offers ...

— The Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon V2 • Henry Craik

... important coal-fields in relation to the future are those of Shan-tung Hu-nan, Ho-nan, and Shan-si. The last is eminently the coal and iron province of China, and its coal-field, as described by Baron Richthofen, combines, in an extraordinary manner, all the advantages that can enhance the value of such a field except (at present) that of facile export; whilst the quantity available is so great that from Southern Shan-si alone he estimates the whole world could be supplied, at the present rate of consumption, ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

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