enhance

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 13.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To lift, raise up.
2. verb To augment or make something greater.
3. verb To improve something by adding features.
4. verb To be raised up; to grow larger.

   A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

5. verb To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Similar words

heighten raise elevate uplift lift raising rise upgrade boost escalate

Often followed by

the their its your his our a and or this

Word family

enhanced enhancement enhancements enhances enhancing