Dictionary entry details
• HEIGHTEN (verb)
Meaning:
Become more extreme
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
heighten; rise
Context example:
The tension heightened
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
increase (make bigger or more)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
heightened interest
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
increase (make bigger or more)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Increase
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
enhance; heighten; raise
Context examples:
This will enhance your enjoyment / heighten the tension
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
compound; deepen; heighten; intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heighten"):
potentiate (increase the effect of or act synergistically with (a drug or a physiological or biochemical phenomenon))
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Increase the height of
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Context example:
The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make (one's senses) more acute
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
heighten; sharpen
Context example:
This drug will sharpen your vision
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
compound; deepen; heighten; intensify (make more intense, stronger, or more marked)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heighten"):
subtilise; subtilize (make (senses) more keen)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Meaning:
Make more intense, stronger, or more marked
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
compound; deepen; intensify; heighten
Context examples:
The efforts were intensified / Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her / Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness / This event only deepened my convictions
Hypernyms (to "heighten" is one way to...):
increase (become bigger or greater in amount)
Cause:
deepen; intensify (become more intense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "heighten"):
heat up; hot up; screw up (make more intense)
fan (make (an emotion) fiercer)
enhance; heighten; raise (increase)
amplify (increase the volume of)
sharpen (make sharp or sharper)
heighten; sharpen (make (one's senses) more acute)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
