Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #267 of 1319

enhance (v.)

to improve the quality of

Examples

  • Music enhances the mood.

Key rules

  • Enhance means improve the quality of something
  • Enhance the value, enhance the appearance
  • Enhancement is the noun

Common mistakes

  • Music enhances to the mood → Music enhances the mood
  • It enhanced of the image → It enhanced the image

Use cases

  • Describing improvements
  • Marketing
  • Design
💡 Tip: Enhance is more formal than improve.
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