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[ verb ] increase

Synonyms

raise heighten

Examples

"This will enhance your enjoyment" "heighten the tension"

Used in print

(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

Many industry trade associations are developing campaigns to protect or enhance the share of the consumer 's dollar being spent on their particular products .

Related terms

intensify potentiate

2
[ verb ] make better or more attractive

Examples

"This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

And further he must understand his obligation to the client to not_only meet his physical necessities but also to enhance and improve his life and to enlarge the cultural horizon of our society .

(E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)

But even in relatively primitive laboratory animals such_as the rat , sex_activity closely identified with the hypothalamus and the visceral_brain is enhanced by the neocortex .

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

In_the_last_analysis , religion is the means of inducing , formulating , expressing , enhancing , implementing , and perpetuating man 's deepest experience - the religious .

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