Enhance vs Grow - What's the difference?
enhance | grow |
(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.
(ergative) To become bigger.
To appear or sprout.
To cause or allow something to become bigger, especially to cultivate plants.
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(copulative) To assume a condition or quality over time.
(obsolete) To become attached or fixed; to adhere.
* Shakespeare
In intransitive terms the difference between enhance and grow
is that enhance is to be raised up; to grow larger while grow is to appear or sprout.As verbs the difference between enhance and grow
is that enhance is to lift, raise up while grow is to become bigger.enhance
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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 alsogrow
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Verb
- Children grow quickly.
- Flowers grew on the trees as summer approached.
- A long tail began to grow from his backside.
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- He grows peppers and squash each summer in his garden.
- Have you ever grown your hair before?
- The boy grew wise as he matured.
- The town grew smaller and smaller in the distance as we travelled.
- You have grown strong.
- Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they grow .