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Heighten

//ˈhaɪ̯.tən// verb

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

    "Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, is being heightened by one metre in a £3.6 million project to reduce delays caused by flooding."

  2. 2
    make more intense, stronger, or more marked wordnet
  3. 3
    To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.

    "to heighten beauty"

  4. 4
    increase the level of wordnet
  5. 5
    make (one's senses) more acute wordnet
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  1. 6
    make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity wordnet
  2. 7
    become more extreme wordnet
  3. 8
    increase the height of wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height + -en (verbal suffix).

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