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)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease

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.
• MISRAISE
  To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• 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
  See DISTRAINOR