| VERB | change | heighten, rise | become more extreme / extreme |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | heighten | make more extreme / extreme | |
| change | heighten, enhance, raise | increase / increase | |
| motion | heighten | increase the height of | |
| change | heighten, sharpen | make (one's senses) more acute | |
| change | heighten, intensify, compound, deepen | make more intense, stronger, or more marked |
| Sounds | hhay'tahn | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | Become more extreme / extreme. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s | |
| Example | "The tension heightened" | |
| Synonym | rise | |
| Broader | increase | make bigger or more |
| Spanish | aumentar, intensificar | |
| Catalan | augmentar, intensificar, pujar | |
| Meaning | make more extreme / extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "heightened interest" | |
| Broader | increase | make bigger or more |
| Spanish | aumentar, intensificar | |
| Catalan | aixecar, augmentar, intensificar | |
| Meaning | increase / increase. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "heighten the tension" | |
| Synonyms | enhance, raise | |
| Narrower | potentiate | increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon) |
| Broader | intensify, compound, heighten, deepen | make more intense, stronger, or more marked |
| Spanish | intensificar, realzar | |
| Catalan | enaltir, intensificar, realçar | |
| Meaning | increase the height of. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars" | |
| Broader | raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up | Raise from a lower to a higher position |
| Spanish | hacer crecer | |
| Catalan | avivar-se, avivar | |
| Meaning | make (one's senses) more acute. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | sharpen | |
| Narrower | subtilize, subtilise | make (senses) more keen |
| Broader | intensify, compound, heighten, deepen | make more intense, stronger, or more marked |
| Spanish | afilar, agudizar, aguzar, amolar, intensificar | |
| Catalan | afilar, afuar, aguditzar, agusar, esmolar, intensificar | |
| Meaning | make more intense, stronger, or more marked. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Example | "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" | |
| Synonyms | intensify, compound, deepen | |
| Cause to | intensify, deepen | Become more intense |
| Narrower | amplify | increase the volume of |
| enhance, heighten, raise | increase / increase | |
| fan | make (an emotion) fiercer | |
| heat up, hot up, screw up | make more intense | |
| sharpen | make crisp or more crisp and precise | |
| sharpen, heighten | make (one's senses) more acute | |
| Broader | increase | Become bigger or greater in amount |
| Spanish | intensificar | |
| Catalan | intensificar | |
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