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height⋅en

  [hahyt-n]
Use heighten in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to increase the height of; make higher.
2. to increase the degree or amount of; augment: Cézanne's death heightened the value of his paintings.
3. to strengthen, deepen, or intensify: to heighten the plot of a story; to heighten one's awareness or appreciation; to heighten one's suffering.
4. to bring out the important features of, as in a drawing: to heighten a picture with Chinese white.
–verb (used without object)
5. to become higher.
6. to increase: The tension heightened as the enemy forces advanced.
7. to brighten or become more intense.
Origin:
1515–25; height + -en 1

Related forms:
height⋅en⋅er, noun

Synonyms:
1. See elevate.
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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

Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), v. t. [Written also highten.] [imp. & p. p. Heightened; p. pr. & vb. n. Heightening.]

1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

2. 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. "To heighten our confusion." --Addison.

An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. --Hawthorne.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : heighten
Spanish: elevar, levantar, hacer más alto,
German: erhöhen,
Japanese: 高くする (なる)
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