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. John W. Gardner:

   When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.

3. Lynn Bufka:

   Election stress becomes exacerbated by arguments, stories, images and video on social media that can heighten concern and frustration, particularly with thousands of comments that can range from factual to hostile or even inflammatory.

4. Greta Thunberg:

   Richer countries such as Canada and Sweden need to get down to zero emissions much faster so people in poorer countries can heighten their standard of living by building the infrastructure we have already built, we're not doing this because it's fun or because we have a special interest in the climate or because we want to become politicians when we grow up. We're doing this because our future is at stake.

5. Credit Suisse:

   Both these factors heighten the risk of delay.