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dehance

dehance verb: to worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon.

Verb

dehance (third-person singular simple present dehances, present participle dehancing, simple past and past participle dehanced)

  1. (transitive) To worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon.
    • Whether teaching ability is enhanced or dehanced by graduate study in education is a vital question to be answered […]1917, The American Schoolmaster, page 136
    • [page 75:] To compensate the weakness inherent in the defocus method without dehancing the image contrast, various ideas have been put forth such as deep defocusing, defocus variation, and Wiener filters. […] [page 103:] Lowest ky-deleted diffractogram ( c ) and corresponding contrast-dehanced...2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75, 103
    Antonyms:
    enhance

Examples of dehance in a sentence

  • Lowest k-deleted diffractogram (e) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (f).2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75, 103:
  • No discussion of issue #5 would be complete, however, without mentioning the “dehanced” cover, in the style of a brown paper bag.2011, Patrick Meaney, Grant Morrison, Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Sequart, →ISBN, page 42:
  • “He cast an incantation and briefly dehanced their magic.2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41:

Antonyms of dehance

Forms of dehance

third-person singular presentdehances
present participledehancing
past participledehanced
pastdehanced

Questions about dehance

What does dehance mean?
Dehance means to worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon.
How do you use dehance in a sentence?
Lowest k-deleted diffractogram (e) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (f).
What part of speech is dehance?
Dehance is a verb.
What is the past tense of dehance?
The past tense of dehance is dehanced.

Words near dehance in the dictionary

  1. dehalogenating
  2. dehalogenation
  3. dehalogenations
  4. dehalogenative
  5. dehalorespiration
  6. dehance
  7. dehanced
  8. dehancement
  9. dehancements
  10. dehances
  11. dehancing

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