heighten

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   become more extreme

   The tension heightened

2. 2
   verb

   increase the height of

   The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars

3. 3
   verb

   To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

   Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, is being heightened by one metre in a £3.6 million project to reduce delays caused by flooding.

4. 4
   verb

   To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.

   to heighten beauty

5. 5
   verb

   make more intense, stronger, or more marked

6. 6
   verb

   increase

7. 7
   verb

   make (one's senses) more acute

8. 8
   verb

   make more extreme

Etymology

From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height + -en (verbal suffix).