Heighten

Definition: Heighten

Heighten

Verb

1. Become more extreme; "The tension heightened".

2. Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest".

3. Increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension".

4. Increase the height of.

5. Make more acute; as of one's senses; "This drug will sharpen your vision".

6. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her", "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "heighten" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Note: Heighten \Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), transitive verb. [Written also highten.]. (references)

Synonyms: Heighten

Aggravation

Verb: aggravate, render worse, heighten, embitter, sour; exacerbate; exasperate, envenom; enrage, provoke, tease.

Elevation

Verb: heighten, elevate, raise, lift, erect; set up, stick up, perch up, perk up, tilt up; rear, hoist, heave; uplift, upraise, uprear, upbear, upcast, uphoist, upheave; buoy, weigh mount, give a lift; exalt; sublimate; place on a pedestal, set on a pedestal.

Exaggeration

Heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color; (misrepresent); puff; (boast).

Height

Render high; Adjective: heighten; (elevate).

Increase

Aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; (add); spread; (disperse).

Crosswords: Heighten

Books

• Foods for Better Sex: Natural Sexual Nutrients, Nutridisiacs, to Trigger Passion, Heighten Response, Improve Performance, and Overcome Dysfunction (reference)

• How to heighten your sexual pleasure through simple mental stimulation (reference)

• Newspaper Credibility: Two Hundred Six Practical Approaches to Heighten Reader Trust (reference)

• Passions: How to Manage Despair, Fear, Rage and Guilt and Heighten Your Capacity for Joy, Love, Hope and Awe (reference)

  (more book examples)

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[Medicine - China: Using a hammer to heighten the effect of acupuncture]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland! Be ready at all times to destroy the enemy intruders!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Health

The possibility of secondary malignancies arising in these children should heighten the clinician's awareness of this problem. (references)

The injection of portions of T cell receptors may heighten the immune system reaction against the errant T cells much the same way a booster shot heightens immunity to tetanus. (references)

Although there are no specific complications of behavior therapy, failure to achieve sustained weight reduction may heighten the patient's sense of personal failure and decrease the motivation for further medical therapy. (references)

Business

The MOE will continue to heighten standards, tighten enforcement and post-future standards. (references)

The selling-off of important assets to non-domestic companies could also heighten the political sensitivities that already plague the reform process. (references)

Computex is the third largest computer hardware trade show in the world and it is also the largest show in Asia. It is an excellent means for foreign PC and peripherals suppliers to enter and heighten their presence in the Taiwan market. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

Namibia is a member of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) and Common Monetary Area (CMA), which has tended to heighten the role of South Africa with respect to Namibia's trade and attraction of foreign investment. (references)

Women

Switzerland

The Federation of Women's Organizations and numerous other women's NGO's continued their activities to heighten public awareness of the problem of violence against women. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

zmadhoj (aggrandize, amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, extend, increase, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, redouble, salt, stretch), shtoj (add, add to, add up, advance, append, attach, augment, compound, count in, eke out, enclose, enhance, inclose, increase, intensify, intercalate, lend, multiply, propagate, put on, pyramid, raise, redouble, refill, subjoin, superinduce, supplement), rrit (add to, augment, boost, breed, bring up, enhance, expand, extend, grow, hike, improve, increase, intensify, keep, maximize, mother, raise, up), nxjerr në pah (foil, highlight, point out, push forward, silhouette), ngre (boost, build up, carve, cast up, chant, elevate, erect, establish, heft, hike, hitch, hoist, hold up, jerk up, kilt, lift, lift up, look up, move up, peak, pick up, propound, raise, rear, rebel, revolt, ring up, rout, run up, scoop up, set up, situate, soar, Square, straighten, take off, throw up, trice, up, upheave, uplift, upraise, wake up, weigh, wind up). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, great, grow stronger, harden, hefty, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, nerve, prop, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏وضح بقوة, ‏زاد (add, augment, boost, compound, dispense with, enhance, extend, get dearer, grow, increase, jump, provisions, push up, put up with smth., supplement, swell, victuals), ‏عمق (deepen, depth, profoundly, profoundness, profundity, spit), ‏ضاعف (compound, double, fold, geminate, multiply, redouble, reduplicate), ‏إزداد (augment, gain, grow, mount, multiply, wax), ‏إشتد (build up, grow, increase, intensify, strengthen), ‏رفع (boost, brace, bring to his feet, bring up, cat, crane, dismiss, elevate, elevation, exalt, expand, fork out, heave, hike, hoist, hold up, inflate, jack, lever, leverage, lift, lifting, mount, pick, pick me up, pick up, promote, purchase, push up, put up with smth., raise, rear, rise, rising, rode, roll up, scroll, send up, set up, sling, take up, thrust, turn up, up-end, upheave, uphold, uplift), ‏برز (accentuate, break out, bring out, bulge, come into view, display, emerge, excrete, feature, form, germinate, image, jut, outcrop, outdo, point, project, protrude, raise, relieve, shine, shoot, show up, spring, stand out, stick, stick out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

усилвам (amplify, augment, exacerbate, exalt, exasperate, fortify, increase, intensify, magnify, nurse, piece in, potentiate, sharpen, stiffen, strengthen, swell, tone up, zip), повишавам се (increase), повишавам (advance, aggrandize, elevate, enhance, erect, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, rack, raise, up), издигам (advance, build, edify, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, heft, hike, levitate, lift, make, put up, pyramid, raise, rear, rose, run up, set up, swing up, throw up, upbear, uplift, upraise). (various references)

Chinese 

升高 (Heightened, heightening), 增高 (raise up). (various references)

Czech

zvýšit (accelerate, ameliorate, bring up, build up, bump up, elevate, enhance, hot up, improve, intensify, put up, scale up, swell, turn up), zvìtšit (add to, aggrandize, augment, blow up, bring up, enlarge, expand, magnify, widen), zintenzívnit, stupòovat (compare, escalate, Mount, run up). (various references)

Dutch

verergeren (accentuate, aggravate, blow up), aandikken (accentuate, blow up, thicken). (various references)

Esperanto

pligravigi (blow up). (various references)

Farsi 

زیادکردن (Add, Augment, Enhance, Increase, Propagate, Raise), شدیدکردن (Keen), بلندکردن (Enhance, Ennoble, Enthrone, Exalt, Heave, Hoist, Lift, Loft, Pedestal, Rear, Remove, Upraise), بلندترکردن , بسطدادن (Develop, Enlarge, Expand, Product, Stretch), بالابردن (Amplify, Ante, Elate, Enhance, Enthrone, Hoist, Raise, Sublimate, Upgrade, Uplift, Upraise, Uprear). (various references)

Finnish

tehostaa (highlight, intensify, render more effective, serve as a foil to, set off, tighten up), lisätä (add, augment, bring ... up to, increase, intensify, supplement), korottaa (advance, enhance, increase, promote, raise), kärjistää (bring to a head, make critical, sharpen). (various references)

French

aggraver. (various references)

German

erhöhen (accelerate, advance, be aggravated, bring up, bump up, enhance, enlarge, exalt, improve, increase, increment, inflate, inflation, mark up, put up, quicken, raise, scale up, sharpen, step up, to exalt, to increase, to increment). (various references)

Greek 

αυξάνω (accrue, amplify, augment, boost, grow, increase, proliferate, raise, wax). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"�'בי�" (raise), ל�"�'ביר (amplify, boost, enhance, intensify, tone up). (various references)

Hungarian

magasra emel (to elevate, to heighten, to raise), magasít (to bring up), felemel (boost, elevate, exalt, levitate, lift up, peak, put up, raise, take up, to boost, to elevate, to exalt, to heighten, to hold up, to jack up, to pull up, to purchase, to set up, to sublime, to uplift, tuck up, upheave, uplift, upraise), emelkedik (climb, go up, heave, hove, lift, rise, stand up, to ascend, to augment, to balloon, to be on the upgrade, to climb, to heave, to heighten, to improve, to rise to eminence, to take the floor, to tower). (various references)

Indonesian

mempertinggi, memperamatkan (intensify). (various references)

Italian

intensificare (enhance, escalate, intensify, sharpen, tighten), innalzarsi, innalzare (elevate, erect, exalt, hoist, raise, rise), esagerare (aggrandise, aggrandize, exaggerate, exceed, go too far, magnify, overdo, overdraw, overpays, overstate, pile, pile on, pitch), aumentare (add, advance, aggrandise, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, compound, eke, enhance, escalate, gain, gather, grow, increase, increments, Mount, put on, put up, raise, rise, step up, swell, to increase), accrescere (accrete, eke, enhance, increase). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

深める (to deepen, to heighten, to intensify). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ふかまる (to deepen, to heighten, to intensify), ふかめる (to deepen, to heighten, to intensify). (various references)

Korean 

�'게 하십시�". (various references)

Manx

yrjaghey (draw, elate, elation, elevation, enhance, exalt, exaltation, exhilarate, exhilaration, go up, hoist, raise, retract, rise). (various references)

Norwegian

forhøye (increase). (various references)

Pig Latin

eightenhay.(various references)

Portuguese

subir (accrue, advance, ascend, aspire, climb, come up, go up, improve, increase, mount, puff, rise, scale, scramble, steepen, up, uprise), elevar (advance, aggrandize, elate, elevate, enhance, erect, get up, heave, increase, lever, lift, make, mount, prefer, pump up, raise, rise, set up, stand up, up, uplift), avivar (brighten, bring back, brisk, enliven, intensify, refresh, sharpen, smarten, stir, trim, warm), aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, get about, go up, grow, increase, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax), altear (accrue, advance, ascend, enhance, increase, raise). (various references)

Romanian

umfla (bag, belly, blow, bunt, expand, fill, fill out, grow, inflate, overdraw, pad, puff, swell), spori (accrue, accumulate, advance, augment, enhance, enlarge, grow, improve, increase, intensify, make, multiply, propagate, spurt, step up, thicken), mãri ca proporţii, intensifica (enhance, exaggerate, exalt, increase, intensify, redouble, renew, sharpen, swell), creşte (accrue, advance, augment, be up, breed, bring, bring up, crop, cultivate, develop, draw out, educate, go up, grow, grow rife, increase, intensify, keep, make, Mount, multiply, nurse, nurture, produce, propagate, raise, rear, rise, school, spring, spurt, straggle, train, wax), înãlţa (balloon, build, elevate, erect, exalt, heave, hoist, lift, put up, raise, set up, uplift). (various references)

Russian 

повышать (elevate, mark up, prefer, promote, raise, send up, step up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

povisiti (drive up, raise, send up), povišavati, pojačati (amplify, boost, intensify, redouble, reinforce, soup, turn up). (various references)

Spanish

hacer más alto (emboss), realzar (add to, emboss, enhance, increase, increments, raise, to increase), intensificar (deepen, enhance, escalate, gear up, intensify, redouble), elevar (boost, elevate, lift, lift up, raise, raise up, upheave), aumentar (accrue, add to, advance, amplify, augment, boost, bulk, enhance, expand, extend, freshen, gear up, get up, grow, hike, hike up, improve, increase, inflate, intensify, jack up, magnify, mark up, Mount, pile on, put up, step up, swell, up, upturn), agrandar (accrete, aggrandize, enlarge, entlarge, magnify). (various references)

Swedish

öka (add to, augment, compound, enhance, extend, gain, grow, increase, inflame, inflate, intensify, put on, redouble, smarten, supplement). (various references)

Thai

เพิ่ม (attach, gain). (various references)

Turkish

yükseltmek (advance, amplify, boost, bump up, drive up, elevate, enhance, ennoble, escalate, exalt, force, get up, hike up, increase, Jack, jack up, lift, lift up, Louden, mark up, promote, push up, raise, rear, rise, run up, scale up, screw up, send up, set up, step up, strengthen, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, upheave, uplift), yükselmek (arise, ascend, be in the ascendant, be in the ascendent, climb, develop, escalate, flow, gain, get one's promotion, go up, harden, improve, Louden, nose up, rear up, rise, scale up, soar, steepen, step up, sublime, swell, tower, upheave, upsurge, work one's way up), şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), artmak (accrete, accrue, advance, ascend, augment, be left, be left over, deepen, duplicate, go up, harden, increase, mount up, multiply, remain, rise, scale up, soar, step up, swell, wax), artırmak (add, aggrandize, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), abartmak (aggrandize, balloon, carry things too far, carry to excess, color, colour, dramatize, draw the longbow, drow the long bow, embellish, embroider, enhance, exaggerate, fudge, glorify, lay it on, lay it on thickly, lay it on with a trowel, magnify, overcharge, overdo, overstate, pile it on, pile on the agony, put it on, put it on thick, put on, shoot off one's mouth, slobber over, stretch), çoğalmak (accrue, augment, breed, gain, go off, increase, mount up, multiply, proliferate, pullulate, reproduce). (various references)

Ukrainian

підвищуватися (aggrandize, upsurge), підвищувати (boost, elate, elevate, enhance, inflate, lift, prefer, send up, up), посилюватися (aggrandize, get up, intensify, sharpen, tone up), посилювати (aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, exalt, fade up, reinforce, sharpen), перебільшувати (amplify, dramatize, exaggerate, magnify, overcolour, overdo, overstate, pad, pile up the agony, romance, too go too far). (various references)

tendo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "heighten": heightened, heightening, heightens. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Heighten" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: heuchter, highen, highte, hoogsteen, Zeiten. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: eighth, height, teeing, theine.

-3 letters: eight, genet, genie, heigh, hight, hinge, neigh, night, tenge, thegn, thein, thigh, thine, thing, tinge.

-4 letters: gene, gent, ghee, gien, hent, heth, high, hint, nigh, nite, teen, thee, then, thin, tine, ting.

-5 letters: eng, eth, gee, gen, get, ghi, gie, gin, git, heh, hen, het, hie, hin, hit, nee.

+1 letter: heightens.

+2 letters: eighteenth, heightened.

+3 letters: eighteenths, ensheathing, heightening.

+4 letters: heathenizing.

+5 letters: ethnographies, haughtinesses, hundredweight.