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. Defense Department spokesman:

   We are concerned that additional North Korean provocations could heighten tensions, lead to a cycle of escalation.

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. Stanley Hazen:

   Thirty grams was enough to make blood levels of erythritol go up a thousandfold, it remained elevated above the threshold necessary to trigger and heighten clotting risk for the following two to three days.