"dehance" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dehances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehancing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehanced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehanced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "dehance (third-person singular simple present dehances, present participle dehancing, simple past and past participle dehanced)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "enhance"
        }
      ],
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, The American Schoolmaster, page 136",
          "text": "Whether teaching ability is enhanced or dehanced by graduate study in education is a vital question to be answered […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, pages 75, 103",
          "text": "[page 75:] To compensate the weakness inherent in the defocus method without dehancing the image contrast, various ideas have been put forth such as deep defocusing, defocus variation, and Wiener filters. […] [page 103:] Lowest ky-deleted diffractogram ( c ) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (d). Lowest k-deleted diffractogram (e) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (f).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 July 18, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo, The Party Bible: The Good Book for Great Times, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "The Beach Bunker Bonanza is the perfect combination of warm weather and a mass consumption of the performance dehancing drug, light beer. Camouflage gear, helmets, and war paint is encouraged.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Patrick Meaney, Grant Morrison, Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Sequart, page 42",
          "text": "No discussion of issue #5 would be complete, however, without mentioning the “dehanced” cover, in the style of a brown paper bag. Ostensibly, the cover was a reaction to the so—called “enhanced” covers of the 1990s — a phenomenon that[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41",
          "text": "“He cast an incantation and briefly dehanced their magic. He then cut a rift into Isterr, and—” The griffin's head tilted down. “They were gone, swept into Isterr as swiftly as leaves in a whirlwind.” He looked up at her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon."
      ],
      "id": "en-dehance-en-verb-39RsTFwJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "disimprove",
          "disimprove"
        ],
        [
          "enhancement",
          "enhancement"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dehance"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "dehances",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehancing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehanced",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dehanced",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "enhance"
        }
      ],
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        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1917, The American Schoolmaster, page 136",
          "text": "Whether teaching ability is enhanced or dehanced by graduate study in education is a vital question to be answered […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, pages 75, 103",
          "text": "[page 75:] To compensate the weakness inherent in the defocus method without dehancing the image contrast, various ideas have been put forth such as deep defocusing, defocus variation, and Wiener filters. […] [page 103:] Lowest ky-deleted diffractogram ( c ) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (d). Lowest k-deleted diffractogram (e) and corresponding contrast-dehanced image (f).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 July 18, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo, The Party Bible: The Good Book for Great Times, Simon and Schuster",
          "text": "The Beach Bunker Bonanza is the perfect combination of warm weather and a mass consumption of the performance dehancing drug, light beer. Camouflage gear, helmets, and war paint is encouraged.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Patrick Meaney, Grant Morrison, Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Sequart, page 42",
          "text": "No discussion of issue #5 would be complete, however, without mentioning the “dehanced” cover, in the style of a brown paper bag. Ostensibly, the cover was a reaction to the so—called “enhanced” covers of the 1990s — a phenomenon that[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41",
          "text": "“He cast an incantation and briefly dehanced their magic. He then cut a rift into Isterr, and—” The griffin's head tilted down. “They were gone, swept into Isterr as swiftly as leaves in a whirlwind.” He looked up at her.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon."
      ],
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        [
          "disimprove",
          "disimprove"
        ],
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          "enhancement",
          "enhancement"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dehance"
}