Synonyms for heightens
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1. List of paraphrases for "heightens":

   exacerbates, accentuates, increases, enhances

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1. Markus Huber:

   Chances appear rather slim for a compromise, which heightens the risk of a possible Greek default and exit out of the euro in just a few months from now.

2. Andy Kim:

   A lot of my colleagues, especially on the select committee, use rhetoric like, ‘This is a new Cold War,’ first of all, it’s not true: The Soviet Union was a very different competitor than China. And it’s framed in a very zero-sum way … It’s very much being talked about as if their entire way of life is incompatible with ours and cannot coexist with ours, and that heightens the tension.

3. The FCA:

   The ability to release pensions as cash heightens the risk of people being targeted by fraudsters.

4. Stephen Namara:

   In 1994, Signe Mayfield said in The Palo Alto Cultural Center: "A more contained approach to the figure is seen in the lyrical drawing Bend, 1991, by Stephen Namara. In contrast to Neri's expressionistic forms, Namara has depicted the calisthenic stance of the figure in a pure, linear arabesque. An ambient, white light heightens the seductive beauty of the drawing. Its resonance comes from its capacity to act as both an abstract calligraph and Lyrical representation".

5. Addison:

   A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every talent which a man can be possessed of. It heightens all the virtues which it accompanies; like the shades of paintings, it raises and rounds every figure, and makes the colours more beautiful, though not so glowing as they would be without it.