enhance

Enhance is defined as to make something better or improve the condition of something.

(verb)

See enhance in Webster's New World College Dictionary

to make greater, as in cost, value, attractiveness, etc.; heighten; augment
to improve the quality or condition of
to improve electronically the quality or clarity of (a photograph or other image) as by means of a computer

Origin: ME enhauncen < Anglo-Fr enhauncer < OFr enhaucier < VL *inaltiare < in-, en- + *altiare, to raise < L altus, high

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See enhance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

transitive verb en·hanced, en·hanc·ing, en·hanc·es

To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
To provide with improved, advanced, or sophisticated features: computer software enhanced with cutting-edge functionalities.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English enhauncen

Origin: , from Anglo-Norman enhauncer

Origin: , variant of Old French enhaucier

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre

Origin: , from Late Latin inaltāre

Origin: : Latin in-, causative pref.; see en-¹

Origin: + Latin altus, high; see al-² in Indo-European roots

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