Synonyms for heighten
All synonyms
Verb
1. Enhance
enhance, intensify, increase, elevate, deepen, raise, advance, aggravate, amplify, improve, strengthen, augment, exacerbate, magnify, exaggerate, lift up, exalt, enlarge, compound, uplift, aggrandize, aggrandise UK, swell
Definitions
- v. 1
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
Forms
- Past participle
- heightened
e.g. heightened → enhanced, intensified, increased, elevated…
Example sentences
- increase It cannot be denied that crime is on the increase.
- enhance Algeria needs to enhance its regional connectivity.
- elevate Improved conditions elevate the human experience.
- intensify It is unavoidable that the fighting will intensify.
- rise We rise together, stronger with each step forward.
- sharpen This pencil is blunt. Could you sharpen it, please?
By length
- 4 letters
- rise1
- 5 letters
- raise1, swell1, exalt2
- 6 letters
- uplift2, deepen2
- 7 letters
- improve2, advance2, enhance2, elevate3, amplify3, augment2, enlarge2, sharpen2, magnify3
- 8 letters
- increase2, compound2
- 9 letters
- intensify4, aggravate3
- 10 letters
- strengthen2, exaggerate4, exacerbate4, aggrandize3, aggrandise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (exalt2 = 2 syllables).