Synonyms for heighten
ˈhaɪt nheight·en

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1. heighten

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, augment, embitter, enhance, increase, intensify, magnify, make worse

   Antonyms:
   abate, alleviate, assuage, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, reduce, relieve, remove, soften

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1. heighten

   Synonyms:
   exalt, increase, enhance, intensify, color, vivify, aggravate, raise, exaggerate, lift up, amplify

   Antonyms:
   lower, depress, diminish, deteriorate, abase, temper, tone, extenuate, modify, quality

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1. heighten, riseverb

   become more extreme

   "The tension heightened"

   Synonyms:
   rise, rebel, rise up, sharpen, grow, get up, prove, spring up, lift, come up, surface, climb, arise, develop, resurrect, go up, intensify, rear, turn out, move up, originate, climb up, compound, ascend, wax, stand up, uprise, raise, jump, enhance, deepen, mount

2. heightenverb

   make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

   "heightened interest"

   Synonyms:
   sharpen, rise, compound, raise, intensify, deepen, enhance

3. enhance, heighten, raiseverb

   increase

   "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"

   Synonyms:
   compound, farm, rise, arouse, put forward, leaven, deepen, upgrade, provoke, elevate, kick upstairs, recruit, upraise, enkindle, sharpen, put up, stir, elicit, advance, conjure, lift, fire, intensify, grow, bring up, invoke, conjure up, nurture, resurrect, levy, promote, prove, erect, raise, call down, get up, produce, call forth, kindle, set up, evoke, rear, parent, enhance

4. heightenverb

   increase the height of

   "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

   Synonyms:
   sharpen, rise, compound, raise, intensify, deepen, enhance

5. sharpen, heightenverb

   make (one's senses) more acute

   "This drug will sharpen your vision"

   Synonyms:
   taper, enhance, compound, rise, focalise, point, sharpen, raise, focalize, focus, intensify, deepen

6. intensify, compound, heighten, deepenverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   change, sharpen, enhance, escalate, compound, rise, step up, raise, combine, intensify, deepen

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1. • Increase
   • Intensify
   • Raise

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1. heightenverb

   Synonyms:
   exalt, elevate, raise

2. heightenverb

   Synonyms:
   increase, enhance, augment

3. heightenverb

   Synonyms:
   intensify, aggravate

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1. List of paraphrases for "heighten":

   increase, exacerbate, enhance

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1. Del Rosario:

   The Philippines fully supports and will pro-actively promote the call of the United States on the '3 halts': halt in reclamation, halt in construction, and halt in aggressive actions that could further heighten tensions, we will agree to be bound only if China and other claimant states agree to the same.

2. Councilman Jerry Schiro:

   Given the heighten( sic) sensitivity to racism in our country today, they are particularly concerning and divisive when made by elected officials, we are, and should be, held to higher standards in our thinking and actions. I can assure the citizens of Luray this type of thinking is not indicative of the Town Council Members or Staff.

3. Lee Seung-yeop:

   Golf has become very popular among the public, while at the same time it has an elitist, extravagant image and is very expensive, we feel it is right that we develop golf as a public sport, ease some of the consumers' burden, expand the sport's base and heighten the golf industry's international competitiveness.

4. Todd Martinez:

   Should it be a default without signs of progress toward a resolution, it could heighten uncertainties and have some destabilizing effects, but these could be minimal if recent progress towards a deal continues.

5. Neil Bennett:

   The mountain itself will work like a bathtub holding the water. The cave system below is effectively the escape route for that water. So as soon as the rain builds up in some part of the mountain system, the water level is going to rise in the caves, the predictions of the water that's coming, of the rain that's coming, is going to heighten the danger now for those in the cave system. So they'll be back to a more difficult situation, with very strong flooding, very strong currents to fight against, and the visibility will be very poor.