to heighten
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4.1
- verb
- /ˈhaɪtən/
:
aumentar
- Sanctioning Chinese companies would only complicate bilateral relations, heightening the tensions that grew during 2010.
- heightened awareness
- heightened tensions
- heightened risk
It gives you strength, focus, sensitivity, heightens all six senses.
- It gives you strength, focus, sensitivity, heightens all six senses.
- So that in itself will heighten your intuition and heighten your ability to embrace it.
- And in that aroused state, those chemicals heighten our senses.
- You know, it heightens paranoia, suspicion.
- Just trying to heighten it now for me.
- Everything that is shown is heightened so much like.
- And in order to heighten that, I cut out all my friends.
- I know it heightened everything happening with me.
- And so I believe that it heightens their need for that feminine balance.
- They saw it for, for its, its existence heightened those kinds of those kinds of tensions as well.
- It's hard to be flooded with union when your fears really heightened.
Examples
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Sure, but I imagine not being able to see heightens the other senses.
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Psychological trauma often heightens during times of transition.
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Popular education is a learning model that provides education in a way that heightens participants' awareness.
Academic text (2012) -
Amazon, I think, certainly heightened the intensity of our commitment.
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Right away, Caesar displayed signs of heightened intelligence.
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In the media, both spurred student interest in words and heightened their awareness of words in their world.
Academic text (2013) -
It heightens your senses, I think.
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Security has been heightened here at the school with a police presence, metal detector searches and ID checks.
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An even more important motivator has been the West's heightened expectations for China's global role.
Academic text (2008) -
The sudden loud noise will heighten your awareness of your surroundings.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
To make something larger or more in number
∞
2.9
To make an amount, level, or value higher
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1.8
Make something larger in number, amount or degree
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4.0
Make something better or more attractive
220
5.5
To become larger, more serious, or more intense
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3.9
To move something to a higher place or level
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4.0
Make something stronger or more intense
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3.4
Make something greater in amount, speed or strength
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3.4
To become more intense or make a situation more intense
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3.6
Make a feeling or situation stronger
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5.3
To make something bigger by adding more to it
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4.1
To increase something, especially its amount or speed
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4.1
To make something larger, stronger, or more important
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6.0
Make a part of something more noticeable
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3.4
To raise prices or amounts by a lot
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6.5
To increase something a lot, often efforts or strength
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1.3
Make an amount or level higher
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5.1
To make a feeling or desire stronger
Antonyms
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Heighten comes from the common word height ('how high something is') and the verb ending -en ('make'). So to heighten a feeling is to 'make it higher', meaning to make the feeling stronger or more noticeable.