dehance

English

Verb

dehance (third-person singular simple present dehances, present participle dehancing, simple past and past participle dehanced)

To worsen, to disimprove; to perform the opposite of enhancement upon.
Antonym: enhance
- 1917, The American Schoolmaster, page 136:
  Whether teaching ability is enhanced or dehanced by graduate study in education is a vital question to be answered […]
- 2005 October 18, Peter W. Hawkes, Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, pages 75, 103:
  [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).
- 2010 July 18, Connor Pritchard, Dominic Russo, The Party Bible: The Good Book for Great Times, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
  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.
- 2011, Patrick Meaney, Grant Morrison, Our Sentence is Up: Seeing Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Sequart, →ISBN, page 42:
  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 […]
- 2020 September 17, Debi Ennis Binder, Summerbird Rises, Debi Ennis Binder, page 41:
  “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.