enhancing
Boosting the quality
Enhancing is the present participle of enhance, meaning to improve or intensify quality, value, or attractiveness.
Something that enhances makes better what already exists: The lighting enhanced the mood of the room, software for enhancing photos.
Often appears as a modifier: performance-enhancing drugs, flavor-enhancing ingredients.
Increase in strength
- elevateTo raise upward
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- strengthenMake more robust
- augmentIncrease in size
optimize · increase · advance · empower · fortify · heighten · expand · magnify
Increase in degree
- heightenIncrease in degree
- amplifyIncrease in strength
- magnifyIncrease perceived size
- accentuateTo give emphasis
sharpen · redouble · concentrate · strengthen · compound · escalate · emphasize · underscore
amplify
Increase in strength
- elevateTo raise upward
- upgradeRaise to higher standard
- strengthenMake more robust
augment · optimize · increase · advance · empower · fortify · heighten · expand · magnify · bolster
deepen
Increase in degree
accentuate · sharpen · redouble · concentrate · strengthen · compound · escalate · emphasize · underscore · dramatize
improve
Raise in quality
perfect · develop · cultivate · fine-tune · tweak · sharpen · streamline · upgrade · revise · edit
cosmetics
Skin-applied beauty substances
- makeoverComplete appearance overhaul
- foundationUnderlying support structure
- blushFacial reddening from emotion
eyeshadow · mascara · lipstick · contour · highlighter · eyeliner · gloss · powder · concealer · primer
- decoratingdecorating, adorning, embellishing, ornamenting, beautifying
- sprucing upbeautifying, freshening, freshening up, grooming, primping
- amplifyingboosting, magnifying, intensifying, heightening, strengthening
- stylizingbeautifying, embellishing, ornamenting, decorating, refining
- flavor changessweetening, souring, bitterness, saltiness, mellowing
- creatingcreating, inventing, producing, generating, making
enhancingweakening
Becoming less strong
diminishing · reducing · lessening · attenuating · decreasing
enhancingmarring
Causing damage or disfigurement
defacing · disfiguring · blemishing · blighting · uglifying
- performance-enhancing drugsBanned athletic supplements
enhance, enhanced, enhancement, enhances, enhancer, enhancers, enhancements, unenhanced