All 19 Uses
enhance
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The Infinite Sea
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- His bodily systems had been augmented, but an enhanced body could reach a tipping point from which there was no return.†
p. 94.5 *enhanced = increased or improved
- If command decided to 'enhance' people for the war, do you really think it would pick the crazy ones?†
p. 221.1enhance = increase or improve
- I'm not so out of it that I don't know what they're doing: holding vigil, waiting to see if the "enhancement" kills me.†
p. 222.7enhancement = improvement
- I have been enhanced.†
p. 246.4enhanced = increased or improved
- The fact that I didn't drop her doesn't surprise me; I'd assumed she would be enhanced, too, but I'd hoped to get lucky and sever her carotid artery.†
p. 246.5
- The attack happens faster than his unenhanced brain can process it.†
p. 248.1unenhanced = without increase or improvementstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unenhanced means not and reverses the meaning of enhanced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- I've been enhanced, but I can't outrun a bullet.†
p. 256.1enhanced = increased or improved
- It's dark, but my eyes have been enhanced: I can see her clearly in the bed, fast asleep.†
p. 257.2
- Too soft for the unenhanced to hear, but the auditory bots transmit the information to the hub, which relays it to the inferior colliculus, the hearing center of my brain.†
p. 257.4unenhanced = without increase or improvementstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unenhanced means not and reverses the meaning of enhanced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- AS WE ASCEND, the truck screeches to a stop and a tall man steps out, and his face is a study in deep shadows thrown by the floods, but I see his eyes with eyes enhanced, bright and hard like the crows' in the woods, polished blue while the crows' were black, and it must be a trick of light or shadow, the small, tight smile he seems to wear.†
p. 261.9enhanced = increased or improved
- No amount of alien enhancement will protect me.†
p. 270.8enhancement = improvement
- I don't know how the enhancement opens an empathetic pathway into another human being.†
p. 277.9
- The 12th System can sustain and strengthen me, supercharge my reflexes, enhance my senses tenfold, heal me, and protect me against every physical hazard, but there's nothing my forty thousand uninvited guests can do about a broken heart.†
p. 278.5enhance = increase or improve
- Even enhanced, my eyes can't follow his fists.†
p. 282.1enhanced = increased or improved
- Enhanced like me, but human ...human like me.†
p. 282.8
- Very quietly now, so quietly I wouldn't hear him without the enhancement array: "Shut up."†
p. 285.3enhancement = improvement
- They were being used to keep track of them, the humans like Evan Walker, solitary and dangerously enhanced, scattered over every continent, armed with knowledge that could bring the whole edifice crashing down if the program downloaded into them malfunctioned—as it clearly did in his case.†
p. 286.2enhanced = increased or improved
- An unenhanced human being would have needed several stitches, but in a few days no one will be able to tell that I was injured.†
p. 288.2unenhanced = without increase or improvementstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unenhanced means not and reverses the meaning of enhanced. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Why engineer-enhanced, delusional puppets like Evan Walker?†
p. 294.3enhanced = increased or improved
Definitions:
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(1)
(enhance) increase quantity or improve quality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)