Verb

(enhanc)

(obsolete) To lift, raise up.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.i:

nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst : / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.

(Wyclif Bible)

To augment or make something greater.

* Southey

The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.

* 2000 , Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope , page 155

A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution

To improve something by adding features.

* 1986 , Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English , page 192

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.

To be raised up; to grow larger.

A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

Verb

(emulat)

To attempt to equal or be the same as.

To copy or imitate, especially a person.

* {{quote-news

, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Saj Chowdhury , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Magpies are unbeaten and enjoying their best run since 1994, although few would have thought the class of 2011 would come close to emulating their ancestors.}}

(obsolete) To feel a rivalry with; to be jealous of, to envy.

* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 146:

But the councell then present emulating my successe, would not thinke it fit to spare me fortie men to be hazzarded in those unknowne regions [...].

(computing) of a program or device: to imitate another program or device