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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.

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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.

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  • 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.
  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • 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
    See DISTRAINOR

 

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