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heighten Verb

— If a sense, awareness, or risk heightens, it increases or becomes stronger. The music heightened the tension in the film. Security was heightened before the meeting. Her heart beat faster as the drama heightened.

heighten

— verb make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity heightened interest — verb become more extreme The tension heightened — verb (= enhance) increase This will enhance your enjoyment heighten the tension — verb increase the height of The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars — verb (= sharpen) make (one's senses) more acute This drug will sharpen your vision — verb (= intensify, deepen) 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

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intensify raise increase enhance strengthen deepen rise lift augment amplify sharpen rear enlarge elevate compound boost wax upraise tower step up reinforce magnify improve hoist grow exalt exaggerate escalate become higher aggravate aggrandize accrue uprise uplift up underscore underline transude streamline spread soar signalize reinforcement raise prices protrude promote proliferate power-up potentiation potentiate

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Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

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States Big Long

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States Big Distance

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heighten · verb

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Heighten ambitions, maybe a raise in salary.
The low slim-line has been cut off-the-shoulder to heighten the effect of the minister's fine bone structure.
A laugh right there could heighten our sense of, uh. Anxiety.
You had to be aware of every move you made. Well sometimes we'd drop acid to heighten our awareness level.
It will only serve to heighten your anxiety, which, if I may say so, is heightened enough.
It's most probably. a pathetically mechanical attempt. to heighten the emotional tension of the next game sequence.
They'll heighten the situation by panicking, and you will too.
She wanted me to choke her to heighten the..
Sometimes anticipation can heighten the. pleasure!
She uses it as a garrote. a way to control her breathing to heighten the experience for the dominant client.
Folklore is stories from the past that are often fictionalised, fictionalised to heighten drama.
You might be interested to know that in our studies pregnancy has been shown to heighten psychic ability.
Plus, here is a man who is getting fake titties. not to raise his low self-esteem, but to heighten awareness about a disease.
We were forced to heighten our alert status to match that of the Caledonians.
She has a certain resemblance, which we can heighten.
THE LOW SLIM-LINE HAS BEEN CUT OFF THE SHOULDER TO HEIGHTEN THE EFFECT OF THE MINISTER'S FINE BONE STRUCTURE.
We are now ready to heighten our foreplay to petting.
His recent raise would seem to heighten that conflict, wouldn't you say?
He's in a state of heightened spirituality. - I'll heighten your spirituality. - This is police business.
It's most probably a pathetically mechanical attempt to heighten the emotional tension of the next game sequence.
It was to heighten office morale, even they admit that.
They only heighten or intensify it.
It has chemical properties which heighten receptivity in neural pathways.
I know, but it's supposed to heighten the sexual experience tenfold.
It was placed to heighten the dynamic.
I strongly advise against doing anything that would heighten your exposure right now.
It will be your turn to heighten the family's prosperity.
I remember when I was a kid, some guy tried to heighten.
A laugh right there could heighten our sense of, uh. anxiety.
We get undressed and so as to heighten the sensibility of the skin on the stomach and thighs, we brush it with emery paper.
Cows are extraordinarily curious and social animals, and the birth of this calf seems to heighten that curiosity among all of the surrounding females, who move in closely for sniffs and gentle nudges.
To heighten the reaction when the victim's body is found.
They admitted Bilderberg. that they had pressure - put on them by the government to heighten security, - and that that's why all this happened.
If you heighten with your hands and else, 900 P.
I told you, Morrie, I no longer try to heighten or dull my senses artificially.
They're there to heighten the sense of surprise and excitement creating an enjoyable experience for the family-- extreme!
Then it will be your turn to heighten the family's prosperity.
Which, as we know, tends to heighten emotional States and bring about behavior that's as reckless as it is freeing.
Heighten the Moderates' profile.

News and current affairs

The way forward for Europe's manufacturing sector might be to heighten the integration of services into manufacturing, creating wider knowledge networks and driving innovation.
Getting the exit strategy right is crucial: serious policy mistakes would significantly heighten the threat of a double-dip recession.
But several factors heighten the current negotiations' strategic importance.
To do that could jeopardize monetary policy independence and heighten the threat of future inflation.
But they will necessarily heighten elements of competition, including competition for Russia.
Now more than ever, proliferation threatens to heighten regional tensions and multiply devastation should war break out.
Instead, qualitative applications of physics to chemistry and biology heighten interest and emphasize the connections.
Poverty, cronyism, and official corruption heighten this popular frustration.
But realizing these aims requires cooperation from the government in Khartoum, whereas each of the proposed measures would only heighten tensions or prove useless.
Thus, a lower deficit might actually heighten tensions in financial markets.
However, as Malaysia engages with the global economy, these privileges may eventually be removed in order to heighten the country's competitiveness.
Indeed, the platform is likely to integrate more women into the US technology sector and heighten cultural exchange.
It will heighten the difficulty of meeting the convergence criteria for euro adoption.
But it will also heighten the will to succeed.
The problem, of course, is that when enough people wait and don't act, they heighten the very risks that they are trying to avoid.
It is a conflict that can be expected to heighten dramatically in 2012, as protesters' agendas - from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Moscow - gain further coherence.
Too often, leaders issue empty promises and offer unrealistic targets that only heighten pressure on over-stretched program directors.
These differences will hardly break the basic trans-Atlantic alliance built on the foundation of common values and interests. But they will necessarily heighten elements of competition, including competition for Russia.

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