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height·en
(hīt′n)v. height·ened, height·en·ing, height·ens
v.tr.
1. To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify.
2. To make high or higher; raise.
v.intr.
1. To rise or increase in quantity or degree; intensify.
2. To become high or higher; rise.
height′en·er n.
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heighten
(ˈhaɪtən)vb
1. to make or become high or higher
2. to make or become more extreme or intense
ˈheightened adj
ˈheightener n
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height•en
(ˈhaɪt n)v.t.
1. to increase the degree or amount of; augment.
2. to strengthen, deepen, or intensify: to heighten one's awareness.
3. to increase the height of; make higher.
4. to bring out the important features of, as in a drawing.
v.i. 5. to increase: The tension heightened.
6. to become brighter or more intense.
[1515–25]
height′en•er, n.
syn: See elevate.
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heighten
Past participle: heightened
Gerund: heightening
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Verb | 1. | heighten - become more extreme; "The tension heightened" increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
2. | 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" | |
3. | heighten - increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension" compound, deepen, intensify, 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" potentiate - increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon); "potentiate the drug" | |
4. | heighten - increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars" | |
5. | heighten - make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision" | |
6. | 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" increase - become bigger or greater in amount; "The amount of work increased" fan - make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred" amplify - increase the volume of; "amplify sound" sharpen - make crisp or more crisp and precise; "We had to sharpen our arguments" |
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heighten
verb intensify, increase, add to, improve, strengthen, enhance, sharpen, aggravate, magnify, amplify, augment The move has heightened tension in the state.
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heighten
verbThe American Heritage® Roget's Thesaurus. Copyright © 2013, 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
يَرْفَعيَزيد، يَرْفَع
zvýšit
forhøjeøge
fokozmagasít
aukahækka
artmakyüksel mek
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
heighten
[ˈhaɪtən] vt (= increase) [+ awareness, tension, concern, interest] → augmenter
[+ blood pressure] → augmenter
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
heighten
vt (= raise) → höherstellen or -machen; (= emphasize) colour etc → hervorheben; (Med) fever → steigen lassen, erhöhen; intensity → steigern; colour, feelings, anger, love, ambition → verstärken; passions, fear, fitness, effect, tension → verstärken, erhöhen; with heightened colour (Brit) or color (US) → mit (hoch)rotem Gesicht; heightened awareness → erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
heighten
[ˈhaɪtn] vt (raise) → alzare; (increase) → far aumentare; (enhance, effect) → mettere in risalto, accrescere; (experience) → rendere più intenso/aCollins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
height
(hӕit) noun1. the distance from the bottom to the top of something. What is the height of this building?; He is 1.75 metres in height.
2. the highest, greatest, strongest etc point. He is at the height of his career; The storm was at its height.
3. the peak or extreme. dressed in the height of fashion; His actions were the height of folly.
4. a high place. We looked down from the heights at the valley beneath us.
ˈheighten verb1. to make or become higher. to heighten the garden wall.
2. to increase (an effect etc).
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