enhanced

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enhanced - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Enhance \En*hance"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enhanced; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Enhancing.] [Norm. F. enhauncer, enhaucer, OF.
     enhaleier, enhaucier; pref. en- (L. in) + haucier to lift,
     raise up, from an assumed L. altiare, fr. L. altus high; cf.
     Pr. enansar, enanzar, to advance, exalt, and E. advance. See
     Altitude, and cf. Hawser.]
     1. To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
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              Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To advance; to augment; to increase; to heighten; to make
        more costly or attractive; as, to enhance the price of
        commodities; to enhance beauty or kindness; hence, also,
        to render more heinous; to aggravate; as, to enhance
        crime.
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              The reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of
              their services, in making them feared as well as
              hated.                                --Southey.
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  enhanced \enhanced\ adj.
     improved. Contrasted with unenhanced.
  
     Syn: better.
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enhanced - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  enhanced
      adj 1: increased or intensified in value or beauty or quality;
             "her enhanced beauty was the result of a good night's
             sleep rather than makeup"; "careful cleaning was
             responsible for the enhanced value of the painting"

enhanced - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "enhanced":
     accelerated, advanced, aggrandized, aggravated, ameliorated,
     amplified, annoyed, augmented, beautified, beefed-up, bettered,
     bloated, boosted, broadened, civilized, converted, cultivated,
     cultured, deepened, deliberately provoked, developed, educated,
     elevated, embellished, embittered, enlarged, enriched, exacerbated,
     exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, heightened, hiked,
     hotted up, improved, increased, inflated, intensified, irritated,
     jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, perfected, polished,
     proliferated, provoked, raised, refined, reformed, reinforced,
     soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened,
     transfigured, transformed, widened, worse, worsened