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. Mark Ostrowski:

   Every company needs to be able to heighten this and become preventative because these attacks are weapons-grade. They're not just casual attacks.

2. Atsushi Miyanoya:

   Many companies set their assumed dollar/yen rates around 110 yen, so recent yen rises would heighten downside risks to corporate revenues.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.