Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3verb
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"
- 4verb
increase
"This will enhance your enjoyment"
"heighten the tension"
- 5verb
make (one's senses) more acute
"This drug will sharpen your vision"
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- 6verb
make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
"heightened interest"
- 7verb
become more extreme
"The tension heightened"
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- 8verb
increase the height of
"The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"
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