Definition of heightens Heightens
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What does heightens mean?
Part of speech
🔤- heightens, verb, present, 3rd person singular of heighten (infinitive).
WordNet
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| heighten - become more extreme; "The tension heightened" | ||
| rise | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| heighten - make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest" | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| heighten - increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars" | ||
| elevate, bring up, get up, lift, raise cause to come to a sudden stop; "The noise brought her up in shock" | ||
| heighten - make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" | ||
| intensify, compound, deepen | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| heat up, hot up, screw up make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" | ||
| fan make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred" | ||
| enhance, heighten, raise increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" | ||
| amplify increase the volume of; "amplify sound" | ||
| sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" | ||
| heighten, sharpen make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest" | ||
| heighten - increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" | ||
| enhance, raise | ||
| deepen, intensify, compound, heighten become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" | ||
| potentiate increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate the drug" | ||
| heighten - make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision" | ||
| sharpen | ||
| deepen, intensify, compound, heighten become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" | ||
| subtilise, subtilize make (senses) more keen | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- heighten (v. t.)
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. - heighten (v. t.)
To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
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heighten
To make high; to raise higher.
Part of speech
🔤- heighten, verb, present, 1st person singular of heighten (infinitive).
- heighten, verb (infinitive).
