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enhancest

enhancest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of enhance.

Meaning of enhance

Verb

enhance (third-person singular simple present enhances, present participle enhancing, simple past and past participle enhanced)

  1. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
    • nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
  2. To augment or make something greater.
    • They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.1831, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, page 214
  3. To improve something by adding features.
    • A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.1986, Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English, page 192
  4. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.
    • A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
  5. To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

Origin of enhancest

enhance + -est

Questions about enhancest

What is enhancest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Enhancest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of enhance.

Words near enhancest in the dictionary

  1. enhancerless
  2. enhancers
  3. enhances
  4. enhancesome
  5. enhancesomes
  6. enhancest
  7. enhanceth
  8. enhancin
  9. enhancing
  10. enhancingly
  11. enhancings

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