Enhance
Enhance verb - To make better.
Usage example: some shrubbery would really enhance the curb appeal of that house
Lower
Lower verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Usage example: decided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In Batman Returns, Tim Burton decided to enhance Penguin's physical resemblance by giving him deformed hands, where the three lower fingers fuse together into ugly flipper-like paddles.
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Love Potion: Part of the Moonfull ritual is drinking a special elixir to enhance pleasure and lower inhibitions.
Source: Literature / The Lords of Satyr -
Another example from II: By obtaining hidden items called Urns, you could unlock different abilities, like Infinite Mana, Infinite Rage of The Titans, and costumes that enhance different stats (or, if you could beat God difficulty, all of them)... but only for the same difficulty or lower.
Source: Mercy Mode
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Lower and Enhance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/enhance/lower
Enhance & Lower. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/enhance/lower>.
Lower or Enhance. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/enhance/lower.
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