Enhance and Lower

Enhance

Enhance verb - To make better.
Usage example: some shrubbery would really enhance the curb appeal of that house

Lower is an antonym for enhance in improve topic.

Nearby Words: enhancement, enhancing, enhancer

Lower

Lower verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Usage example: decided to lower his career ambitions to something more achievable

Enhance is an antonym for lower in topics: increase, belittle.

Nearby Words: lowered, lowering, lowermost, lowercase

Common collocations

reputation enhance reputation lower reputation
amount enhance amount lower amount
magic enhance magic lower magic
weapon enhance weapon lower weapon
Other words: defense, sword, points, attacks, weapons, stats.

Both words in one sentence

  • Characters / Batman Rogues Gallery Part 1 aka: Harley Quinn 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.
  • Literature / The Lords of Satyr Love Potion: Part of the Moonfull ritual is drinking a special elixir to enhance pleasure and lower inhibitions.
  • Mercy Mode 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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