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{
"term": "enhance",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "enhance",
"heSheIt": "enhances"
},
"pastSimple": "enhanced",
"pastParticiple": "enhanced",
"ingForm": "enhancing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to increase or further improve the good quality, value or status of somebody/something",
"sensetop": "enhance something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This is an opportunity to **enhance the reputation** of the company."
},
{
"text": "things that can significantly **enhance the quality** of your life"
},
{
"text": "The runner says he's never used steroids to **enhance his performance**."
},
{
"text": "The new initiative will **enhance our ability** to respond to threats abroad."
},
{
"text": "The project was designed to **enhance the experience** of museum visitors."
},
{
"text": "the skilled use of make-up to enhance your best features"
},
{
"text": "Printing in this way saves time and **greatly enhances** productivity."
},
{
"text": "These latest discoveries have **further enhanced** our understanding of the origins of the universe."
},
{
"text": "The attractiveness of the book is much enhanced by Mark Stevens' drawings."
},
{
"text": "The images have been digitally enhanced."
},
{
"text": "reforms designed to enhance market efficiency"
},
{
"text": "Most people seek to enhance their status at work in whatever ways they can."
},
{
"text": "The images can be enhanced using digital technology."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["considerably", "dramatically", "greatly"],
"verb + enhance": ["can", "could", "may"],
"phrases": ["digitally enhanced", "surgically enhanced"]
}
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhɑːns/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhance__gb_2.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhɑːnsɪz/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhances__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhɑːnst/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhanced__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhɑːnsɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhancing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhæns/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhance__us_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhænsɪz/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhances__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhænst/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhanced__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪnˈhænsɪŋ/",
"audio": "en/enhance/enhancing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English (formerly also as inhance): from Anglo-Norman French enhauncer, based on Latin in- (expressing intensive force) + altus ‘high’. The word originally meant ‘elevate’ (literally and figuratively), later ‘exaggerate, make appear greater’, also ‘raise the value or price of something’. Current senses date from the early 16th cent."
}