enhance

B2 CET-4 Oxf 3000 大学 FREQ #13425 ★★★☆☆

vt. 提高, 加强, 增加

发音

UK /ɪnˈhɑːns/
US /ɪnˈhæns/
US /ɛnˈhæns/

词形变化

enhanced enhances 三单 enhances enhancest enhanceth enhancing enhancing 现在分词 enhanced 过去式 enhanced 过去分词

别名

inhance enhaunce inhaunce

教材释义与例句

动词

提高；加强；增加

释义与例句

v. B2 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    To lift, raise up.

    废旧
  2. 2.

    To augment or make something greater.

  3. 3.

    To improve something by adding features.

    改善

  4. 4.

    To be raised up; to grow larger.

    不及物

    A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

  5. 5.

    To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).

    医学

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

raise heighten

上位词 9

better improve compound amend intensify deepen heighten ameliorate meliorate

下位词 6

follow-up overclock potentiate reflate retouch touch up

词源

From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.

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