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動詞

dehance (三人称単数 現在形 dehances, 現在分詞 dehancing, 過去形および過去分詞形 dehanced)

1. 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.