Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: enhance
IPA transcription: [ɛnh'æns]
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: enhance, heighten, raise
    Meaning: increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"
  • Synonyms: enhance
    Meaning: make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"
Usage examples
  • Combinations of complementary goods enhance the enjoyment; inharmonious combinations decrease it.
  • The Governments of Europe seem to treat the press with the courtesy of the knights of old; they are anxious to furnish it with the same central power which they have found to be so trusty a weapon, in order to enhance the glory of their resistance to its attacks.
  • There was a certain degree of pride and importance about being wanted by one's lawyers in such a monstrous hurry, that was by no means displeasing to Mrs. Bardell, especially as it might be reasonably supposed to enhance her consequence in the eyes of the first-floor lodger.
  • People always wish this when they are starting for Europe; and they wish it more and more after they get there, and realize of what value exact ideas and information and a fuller knowledge of the foreign languages are to all travellers; how they add to the charm of everything seen, and enhance the ease of everything done.