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heighten

English

  1. 🔊 make more extreme
    “heightened interest”
  2. 🔊 become more extreme
    “The tension heightened”
  3. 🔊 increase the height of
    “The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars”
  4. 🔊 increase
    “This will enhance your enjoyment”
  5. 🔊 make (one's senses) more acute
    “This drug will sharpen your vision”
  6. 🔊 make more intense, stronger, or more marked
    “The efforts were intensified”

Similar words

intensify compound deepen enhance raise sharpen rise accelerate add to agent provocateur aggrandize aggravate amplify annoy augment beef up better blow up boost build build up buoy up cast up complicate