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Heighten

verb

(past & past part. heightened; pres. part. heightening) (Written also highten)

Become more extreme. Synonym: rise.

Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity.

Increase. Synonyms: enhance, raise. "Heighten the tension"

Increase the height of.

Make (one's senses) more acute. Synonym: sharpen.

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify. "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"

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"Heighten" Quotes from Famous Books

... envy bloweth up the sighs of men. No fear of that might touch ye, if the love Of higher sphere exalted your desire. For there, by how much more they call it ours, So much propriety of each in good Increases more, and heighten'd charity Wraps that fair cloister ...

— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri

... new book have just reached me. My best thanks for them; and if you can only send me a little time for reading within the next three months you will heighten the obligation twenty-fold. I wish I had either two heads or a body that ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... to accompany the dear boy in his perilous journey to the Father-land, and to transcribe the yearning and affectionate letters of his mother, both to him, and to those to whose charge he was entrusted—they could not but heighten our opinion of her excellence in the maternal relation, as well as of the great sensibility of her heart; but we are warned that our pages are swelling to too great a number. Ours is but a sketch, an outline; those who would see the full length portrait ...

— Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons • Arabella W. Stuart

... of those who have tasted immortality is that which has in some degree been fortified. To recollect with enjoyment is to select certain salient facts from an experience and to be oblivious of the rest; or else it is to heighten the exciting elements of an event out of all proportion with historic fact; or it even is to place what should be in the seat of what precisely was.... But this must be done firmly, logically, with no timidity in reminiscence, so that the mind shall rest ...

— Hypolympia - Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy • Edmund Gosse

... one spirit that's warmly sincere, That will heighten your pleasure and solace your care; Find a soul you may trust as the kind and the just, And be sure the wide world holds no treasure so rare. Then the frowns of misfortune may shadow our lot, The cheek-searing tear-drops, of sorrow may ...

— The Wedding Guest • T.S. Arthur

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