different between enhance vs emend

English

Alternative forms

• inhance, enhaunce, inhaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enhauncen, from Anglo-Norman enhauncer, from Old French enhaucier (“make greater”), from Late Latin inaltare (“exalt”), from Latin in + altus (“high”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?h??ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?hæns/
• Rhymes: -??ns, -æns

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To lift, raise up.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.i:

     nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.

2. To augment or make something greater.
3. To improve something by adding features.
4. (intransitive) To be raised up; to grow larger.

   A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.

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

Synonyms

• heighten
• See also Thesaurus:improve

Translations

Middle English

Verb

enhance

1. Alternative form of enhauncen

English

Etymology

From Middle English emenden, from Latin emendo (“I free from fault”), from ex- (“out”) + mendum (“fault, blemish”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??m?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

emend (third-person singular simple present emends, present participle emending, simple past and past participle emended)

1. (transitive) To correct and revise (text or a document).

Related terms

Derived terms

• emendable

Translations

Anagrams

• Emden, Meden, Mende