enhances English
Verb
(head)
(enhance)
enhance English
Alternative forms
* inhance
* enhaunce
* inhaunce
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.
Synonyms
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promotes English
Verb
(head)
(promote)
Anagrams
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promote English
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
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, 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
Antonyms
* (raise rank) demote
* (advocate or urge on behalf of) denigrate, oppose
Related terms
* promotion
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