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Underpin vs Enhance - What's the difference?

underpin | enhance |

In lang=en terms the difference between underpin and enhance

is that underpin is to support from below with props or masonry while enhance is to be raised up; to grow larger.

As verbs the difference between underpin and enhance

is that underpin is to support from below with props or masonry while enhance is (obsolete) to lift, raise up.

underpin

English

Verb

(underpinn)
  • To support from below with props or masonry.
    • You should underpin the mine roof to prevent further collapse.
  • (figuratively) To give support to; to corroborate.
    • Public confidence in politicians must underpin our democracy.

    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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