Enhance vs Accentuate - What's the difference?
enhance | accentuate |
(obsolete) To lift, raise up.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:
To augment or make something greater.
* Southey
* 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155
To improve something by adding features.
* 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192
To be raised up; to grow larger.
To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
* In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated . - London Times
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=5 To mark with a written accent.
As verbs the difference between enhance and accentuate
is that enhance is to lift, raise up while accentuate is to pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.enhance
English
Alternative forms
* inhance * enhaunce * inhaunceVerb
(enhanc)- nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
- (Wyclif Bible)
- The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
- A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
- A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
- A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
Synonyms
* See alsoaccentuate
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Verb
(accentuat)citation, passage=These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them.}}