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  2. to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect: The strong police presence only heightened the tension among the crowd. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Increasing and intensifying. accretion. accumulate. accumulatively. add fuel to the fire idiom. blaze. crank. gain. go into orbit idiom. go up phrasal verb.

  3. The meaning of HEIGHTEN is to increase the amount or degree of : augment. How to use heighten in a sentence.

  4. verb [ I or T ] uk / ˈhaɪ.t ə n / us / ˈhaɪ.t̬ ə n /. to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect: The strong police presence only heightened the tension among the crowd. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Increasing and intensifying. accretion. accumulate.

  5. Definitions of heighten. verb. make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity. “ heightened interest” see more. verb. increase. “ heighten the tension” synonyms: enhance, raise. see more. verb. become more extreme. “The tension heightened ” synonyms: rise. see more. verb. increase the height of.

  6. verb. If something heightens a feeling or if the feeling heightens, the feeling increases in degree or intensity. The move has heightened tension in the state. [VERB noun] These latest murders have heightened fears of further attacks. [VERB noun] Cross's interest heightened. [VERB] ...a heightened awareness of the dangers that they now face.

  7. if a feeling or an effect heightens, or something heightens it, it becomes stronger or increases synonym intensify. Tension has heightened after the recent bomb attack. heighten something The campaign is intended to heighten public awareness of the disease.

  8. to increase the height of; make higher. to increase the degree or amount of; augment: Cézanne's death heightened the value of his paintings. to strengthen, deepen, or intensify: to heighten the plot of a story; to heighten one's awareness or appreciation; to heighten one's suffering.