Verb

(head)

(enhance)

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

(head)

(promote)

Verb

(promot)

To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.

He promoted his clerk to office manager.

Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.

To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.

They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.

They promoted the new film with giant billboards.

To encourage, urge or incite

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=5 , so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}

To elevate to the above league.

At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.

(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure

(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank