Crossword clues for enhancing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.]
--Wyclif.Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced.
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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.
The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated.
--Southey.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of enhance English)
Usage examples of "enhancing".
I have no ability to do that, not even with you enhancing his emotions for me.
Below me lay beautiful gardens, fairylands of casually riotous blooms, spilling onto the winding paths, nudging against a variety of unusual trees, enhancing stonework and sculpture.
She squinted at the top of the flimsy, peering to make out a code sequence that Nancia could read perfectly well with the vision correctors damping down movement and enhancing blurred letters.
She was as tall as any woman of the hundred families, whose geneticists had concentrated on enhancing sturdiness so their descendants could comfortably spend a lifetime coping with the arduous conditions of spaceflight.
It was also capable of reinforcing a body to resist almost any kind of assault as well as enhancing its physical strength.
Valisk can support at least six or seven million, and that’s without our energistic ability enhancing it.
She had also decided that she was not going to spend the five weeks on the cruise ship enhancing crystal singer myths.
By genetically enhancing and selectively breeding these reptiles through the generations, the colonists created a race of full-sized dragons.
Fort's four queens flanked the big bronze, larger than he but, in Jaxom's eyes, only enhancing his magnificence with their brilliance.
When it had become apparent it was harming the men, he immediately called a halt to enhancing the rare talents, immediately trying to find ways to help them cope with the repercussions.
I don't think the seizures are caused by the enhancing process, or if they are, it's a rare side effect.
I don't believe what I feel for you has anything at all to do with enhancing, Lily.
Peter used to talk to me about enhancing psychic ability and I finally agreed to his crazy scheme, but I never thought it would really work.
Bruenor conceded, Wulfgar's stubborn pride actually enhancing the dwarf's respect for him.
The stories of the halfling's charm and persuasive ability, and the accusation that Kemp had made at the council a few weeks earlier, had been told and retold a thousand times in every one of the towns, each storyteller typically enhancing and exaggerating the tales to increase his own importance.