Word Meanings - HEIGHTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. 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.
Additional info about word: HEIGHTEN
1. To make high; to raise higher; to elevate. 2. 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. "To heighten our confusion." Addison. An aspect of mystery which was easily heightened to the miraculous. Hawthorne.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HEIGHTEN)
- Aggravate
- Exasperate
- provoke
- wound
- heighten
- intensify
- irritate
- make worse
- increase
- enhance embitter
- magnify
- Exaggerate
- Amplify
- enlarge
- overstate
- overdraw
- strain
- overpaint
- overestimate
- Raise
- Lift
- heave
- elevate
- exalt
- advance
- promote
- enhance
- awaken
- rouse
- excite
- call forth
- cultivate
- rear
- produce
- collect
- summon
- erect
- originate
- propagate
- Sublimate
- Vaporize
- refine
- Swell
- Dilate
- extend
- enlarges
- rise
- expand
- augment
- protuberate
- aggravate
- amplify
- distend
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HEIGHTEN)
Related words: (words related to HEIGHTEN)
- FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - COLLECTEDLY
Composedly; coolly. - ERECT
1. To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, etc. 2. To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - HEAVE
1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound. And the huge columns heave into the sky. Pope. Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap. Gray. The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. E. Everett. 2. To rise and fall with alternate - INTENSIFY
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow. - PROTUBERATE
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp. - SUPPRESSOR
One who suppresses. - EXPAND
To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - COLLECTIBLE
Capable of being collected. - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RETREATFUL
Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman. - COLLECTIVISM
The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - OVERESTIMATE
An estimate that is too high; as, an overestimate of the vote. - FORTHCOMING
Ready or about to appear; making appearance. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - PREFINE
To limit beforehand. Knolles. - WHENCEFORTH
From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - DISTRAINER
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