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Heighten

verb

(past & past part. heightened; pres. part. heightening) (Written also highten)

Become more extreme. Synonym: rise.

Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity.

Increase. Synonyms: enhance, raise. "Heighten the tension"

Increase the height of.

Make (one's senses) more acute. Synonym: sharpen.

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify. "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"

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"Heighten" Quotes from Famous Books

... seen the wonders of the far western scenery, and this appropriate background for their sentiment also afforded Lyons the opportunity to inspect certain railroad lines in which he was financially interested. The atmosphere of the gorgeous snow-clad peaks and impressive chasms served to heighten still further the intensity of Selma's frame of mind. She managed adroitly on several occasions to let people know who they were, and it pleased her to observe the conductor indicating to passengers in the common cars that they were Congressman Lyons and his wife on their ...

— Unleavened Bread • Robert Grant

... now touched with a delicate carmine, such as shines between the fingers of a hand held up against a light. The flush seemed to heighten and enhance her beauty, or rather it lent her a novel kindling charm that ...

— A Modern Mercenary • Kate Prichard and Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard

... that meeting smiled fair. Years in number, it seem'd, Lay before both, and a fame Heighten'd, and multiplied power.— Behold! The elder, to-day, Lies expecting from death, In mortal weakness, a last Summons! ...

— Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold • Matthew Arnold

... broke up the Council, and retired to the chamber where Nina and his sister waited him. These beautiful young women had conceived for each other the tenderest affection. And their differing characters, both of mind and feature, seemed by contrast to heighten the charms of both; as in a skilful jewellery, the pearl and diamond ...

— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... garden at home; so that, on the whole, her visit, she said, made her perfectly wretched, and she should have no heart for a week; nor did the little basket of extra nice fruit which Mrs. Hill presented her as she was about to take leave heighten her spirits in the least. Her great heavy umbrella, she said, ...

— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller

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