Heighten synonyms

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emphasize
To give emphasis to; stress:
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accent
To express the accent of vocally; to utter with accent.
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sharpen
To make or become sharp or sharper
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redouble
To become twice as great or twice as much
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uplift
To raise to spiritual or emotional heights; exalt:
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elevate
To raise to a higher moral, cultural, or intellectual level:
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lift
To direct or carry from a lower to a higher position; raise:
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increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
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intensify (related)
To make intense or more intense; increase; strengthen
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strengthen (related)
To augment; to improve; to intensify.
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raise (related)
To breed and care for to maturity:
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advance
To raise to a higher rank; to promote.
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aggravate
To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. — William Paley.
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amplify
To make larger or more powerful; increase.
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augment
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
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bolster
To bolster is to support or strengthen something.
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boost
(Electricity) To increase the voltage of (a circuit).
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enhance
To improve electronically the quality or clarity of (a photograph or other image) as by means of a computer
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enrich
To give greater value, importance, effectiveness, etc. to
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expand
Expand is defined as to increase in size, unfold or spread out.
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deepen
To make darker or more intense; to darken
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compound
(Law) To settle by agreeing on less than the claim, or on different terms than those stipulated.
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rise
Rise is defined as to wake up, stand up, go to a higher place or increase in amount.
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accentuate (related)
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lessen (related)
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arouse (related)
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engender (related)
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heightened (related)
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diminish (related)
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reinforce (related)
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evoke (related)
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exacerbate (related)
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Heighten Sentence Examples

  • These are cleverly employed in order to heighten the impression of its instability.

  • iv.) tending to heighten its impressiveness.

  • Its criminal employment is usually intended to heighten sexual desire, and has frequently led to death.

  • The 16th Aventiure, describing this hunt and the murder of Siegfried, is perhaps the most powerful scene in all medieval epic. To heighten the effect of the tragic climax the poet begins with a description of the hunting, and describes the high spirits of Siegfried, who captures a wild boar, rides back with it to camp, and there lets it loose to the great discomfiture of the cooks.

  • A similar series of works was projected and begun about the same time as that of Le Vaillant by Audebert and Vieillot, though the former, who was by profession a painter and illustrated the work, was already dead more than a year before the appearance of the two volumes, bearing date 2802, and entitled Oiseaux dores ou a reflets metalliques, the effect of the plates in which he sought to heighten by the lavish use of gilding.

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