heighten

heighten is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 15 · 8 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
2. transitive 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.
3. verb. make more intense, stronger, or more marked, "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"

   "The efforts were intensified"

   "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"

   Synonyms: compound, deepen, intensify

4. verb. increase

   "This will enhance your enjoyment"

   "heighten the tension"

   Synonyms: enhance, raise

5. verb. make (one's senses) more acute

   "This drug will sharpen your vision"

   Synonyms: sharpen

6. verb. make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

   "heightened interest"

7. verb. become more extreme

   "The tension heightened"

   Synonyms: rise

8. verb. increase the height of

   "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

Synonyms

compound, deepen, intensify, enhance, raise, sharpen, rise

Common word forms

heightens, heightened, heightener, heightening

Words from these letters

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