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| Main Entry: | enhance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate, embroider, enlarge, exaggerate, exalt, heighten, increase, intensify, lift, magnify, pad*, pyramid*, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell, upgrade, flesh out |
| Antonyms: | decrease, fix, lower, minimize, reduce, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adorn |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | decorate |
| Synonyms: | array, beautify, bedeck, deck, doll up*, dress up, embellish, enhance, enrich, fix up, furbish, garnish, grace, ornament, spruce up, trim, gussy up |
| Antonyms: | damage, deform, hurt, mar, leave plain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, correct |
| Synonyms: | alter, ameliorate, better, change, elevate, enhance, fix, help, lift, make up for, mend, modify, pay one's dues, raise, rectify, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, square* |
| Notes: | when you amend a text, you change it - usually for the better and when you emend a text, you simply correct the mistakes; whereas one can amend various aspects of conduct or behavior, emend is used if the issue at hand is that of a manuscript, speech, or literary product |
| Antonyms: | blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, harm, impair, injure, mar, reduce, subtract, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | augment |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make greater; improve |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, beef up*, boost, build, build up, compound, develop, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, magnify, mount, multiply, pad, progress, raise, reinforce, strengthen, sweeten, swell, piggyback, tag on |
| Antonyms: | decrease, degrade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | beautify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more physically attractive |
| Synonyms: | adorn, array, bedeck, deck, decorate, dress up, embellish, enhance, garnish, gild, grace, improve, make up, ornament, trim, glamorize, prettify, set off |
| Antonyms: | disfigure, harm, injure, mar, spoil |
| Main Entry: | better |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve performance; outdo |
| Synonyms: | advance, ameliorate, amend, beat, best, cap, correct, enhance, exceed, excel, forward, further, help, meliorate, mend, outshine, outstrip, promote, raise, rectify, refine, reform, revamp, surpass, top, transcend |
| Antonyms: | deteriorate, worsen, get worse |
| Main Entry: | build up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amplify, advertise |
| Synonyms: | add to, boost, develop, enhance, expand, extend, fortify, heighten, hype, improve, increase, intensify, plug*, promote, publicize, puff*, reinforce, spotlight, strengthen |
| Antonyms: | lessen, let down, play down, weaken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | elaborate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make detailed; expand |
| Synonyms: | amplify, bedeck, clarify, comment, complicate, deck, decorate, develop, devise, discuss, embellish, enhance, enlarge, evolve, expatiate, explain, expound, garnish, improve, interpret, ornament, polish, produce, refine, specify, unfold, work out, flesh out, particularize |
| Antonyms: | simplify, make simple |
| Main Entry: | embellish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make beautiful; decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, amplify, array, beautify, bedeck, color, deck, dress up*, elaborate, embroider, enhance, enrich, exaggerate, festoon, fix up*, fudge*, garnish, gild, grace, magnify, ornament, overstate, spruce up*, trim, add bells and whistles, emblaze, give details, gussy up, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | deface, disfigure, mar, simplify, spoil, uglify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | endow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give large gift |
| Synonyms: | accord, award, back, bequeath, bestow, confer, contribute, donate, empower, enable, enhance, enrich, establish, favor, finance, found, fund, furnish, grant, heighten, invest, leave, organize, promote, provide, sponsor, subscribe, subsidize, supply, support, will, come through with, endue, lay on, make over*, settle on, vest in |
| Antonyms: | receive, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | enrich |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | adorn, aggrandize, ameliorate, augment, beef up*, better, build, build up, cultivate, decorate, develop, endow, enhance, figure in, grace, ornament, pad, parlay, pyramid*, refine, spike*, step up, supplement, sweeten*, up*, upgrade, flesh out, hike up, hop up, jack up, jazz up, make rich, pour it on, run up*, soup up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deplete, impoverish, reduce, take |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | garnish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | embellish, improve |
| Synonyms: | adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, dress up, enhance, fix up, grace, ornament, spruce up*, trim, gussy up, set off*, spiff up |
| Antonyms: | decrease, divest, harm, hurt, strip, leave plain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gild |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | embellish, decorate |
| Synonyms: | adorn, aureate, beautify, bedeck, brighten, coat, deck, dress up, embroider, enhance, enrich, garnish, glitter, grace, ornament, overlay, paint, plate, varnish, wash, whitewash*, aurify, begild, engild, tinsel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | grace |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beautify, embellish |
| Synonyms: | adorn, bedeck, crown, deck, decorate, dignify, distinguish, elevate, enhance, enrich, favor, garnish, glorify, honor, ornament, laureate, set off |
| Antonyms: | disgrace, uglify |
| Main Entry: | heighten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intensify |
| Synonyms: | add to, amplify, augment, boost, build up, elevate, enhance, enlarge, exalt, extend, improve, increase, lift, magnify, raise, strengthen, make higher, send up |
| Main Entry: | improve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become better |
| Synonyms: | advance, ameliorate, amend, augment, better, boost, civilize, convalesce, correct, cultivate, develop, edit, elevate, emend, enhance, gain ground*, help, increase, lift, look up*, meliorate, mend, perk up*, pick up*, polish, progress, promote, purify, raise, rally, recover, rectify, recuperate, refine, reform, revamp, revise, rise, sharpen, skyrocket*, take off*, touch up*, update, upgrade, come around*, doctor up, make strides, set right, shape up, straighten out*, turn the corner |
| Antonyms: | damage, decline, decrease, diminish, harm, hurt, injure, weaken, worsen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | increase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add or grow |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annex, augment, boost, broaden, build, build up, deepen, develop, dilate, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, expand, extend, further, heighten, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, pad*, progress, proliferate, prolong, protract, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, sharpen, spread, step up, strengthen, supplement, swarm, swell, teem, thicken, triple, wax, widen, mark up, pullulate, slap on, snowball, tack on |
| Antonyms: | decrease, deplete, diminish, lose, subtract |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intensify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more forceful, severe |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, add to, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, beef up*, boost, brighten, build up, concentrate, darken, deepen, emphasize, enhance, escalate, exacerbate, exalt, heighten, increase, lighten, magnify, point, quicken, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, sharpen, spike*, step up, strengthen, stress, whet, add fuel, heat up, intensate, pour it on, set off, tone up |
| Antonyms: | calm, lower, slow, soothe, weaken |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | supplement |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add to |
| Synonyms: | augment, beef up*, build up, buttress, complement, complete, enhance, enrich, extend, fill out, fortify, improve, increase, pad*, reinforce, step up, strengthen, subsidize, supply, top, add fuel to fire, fill up, heat up, jazz up, punch up |
| Antonyms: | subtract |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | swell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | become larger |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add to, aggravate, amplify, augment, balloon, belly, billow, blister, bloat, bulge, dilate, distend, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, increase, intensity, mount, plump, pouch, pout, protrude, puff, rise, surge, be inflated, become bloated, become distended, become swollen, grow larger, puff up, round out, tumefy, uprise, well up |
| Antonyms: | compress, concentrate, contract, shrink |
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