Lexic.us

Definition of Heighten

1. Verb. Become more extreme. "The tension heightened"

2. Verb. Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity. "Heightened interest"

3. Verb. Increase. "Heighten the tension"

4. Verb. Increase the height of. "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

5. Verb. Make (one's senses) more acute. "This drug will sharpen your vision"

6. Verb. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. "This event only deepened my convictions"

Definition of Heighten

1. v. t. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

Definition of Heighten

1. Verb. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. ¹

2. Verb. To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Heighten

1. to raise [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: raise

Lexicographical Neighbors of Heighten

heiducks heiducs heiduk heiduks heifer heiferette heiferettes heifers heigh heigh-ho

height-length index height above average terrain height of contour height vertigo heighten (current term) heightened heightener heighteners heightening heightening(a)

heightens heightfield heightfields heighth heighths heightism heightisms heightist heightless

Literary usage of Heighten

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Purity and virtue heighten all the powers of fruition. ... heighten and aggravate have connection with each other only in application to offences : the ..."

2. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Imitation to heighten Appreciation. — Another way of applying composition to further the study of literature is imitation. Instead of explaining our ..."

3. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"Imitation to heighten Appreciation. — Another way of applying composition to further the study of literature is imitation. Instead of explaining our ..."

4. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"Function of the receptor to lower for its reflex-arc the threshold value of one kind of stimulus and to heighten the threshold value of all other kinds of ..."

5. The Mirror (1803)
"... which seems to have escaped him, drawn from the effect of the opposition above-mentioned, to heighten our passion for a particular object. ..."

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