Enhanced
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
enhanced
adj 1: increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality;
"her enhanced beauty was the result of a good night's
sleep rather than makeup"; "careful cleaning was
responsible for the enhanced value of the painting"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Enhance \En*hance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enhanced}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Enhancing}.] [Norm. F. enhauncer, enhaucer, OF.
enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (L. in) + haucier to lift,
raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf.
Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and E. advance. See
{Altitude}, and cf. {Hawser}.]
1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced.
--Spenser.
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2. To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make
more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of
commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also,
to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance
crime.
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The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of
their services, in making them feared as well as
hated. --Southey.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "enhanced":
accelerated, advanced, aggrandized, aggravated, ameliorated,
amplified, annoyed, augmented, beautified, beefed-up, bettered,
bloated, boosted, broadened, civilized, converted, cultivated,
cultured, deepened, deliberately provoked, developed, educated,
elevated, embellished, embittered, enlarged, enriched, exacerbated,
exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, heightened, hiked,
hotted up, improved, increased, inflated, intensified, irritated,
jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, perfected, polished,
proliferated, provoked, raised, refined, reformed, reinforced,
soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened,
transfigured, transformed, widened, worse, worsened
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