heighten
verb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Origin of heighten
Synonym study
Related Words for heightened
fierce, intensive, intense, profound, concentrated, confused, labored, complicated, rough, grave, raised, towering, lifted, uplifted, abstruse, complex, formidable, grievous, hard, harshExamples from the Web for heightened
Contemporary Examples of heightened
For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical MusicKevin Fallon
December 23, 2014
She stands, dressed in a tutu, on one pointed foot in a heightened fifth position.
It is an extreme, heightened set-up, I say: the whole hostage-taking, life-imperiled prolog.
The Mossad high command must surely be convening emergency meetings in an atmosphere of tension and heightened alertness.
Mossad’s Greatest Female Assassin: An Excerpt From ‘Sylvia Rafael’Ram Oren, Moti Kfir
September 20, 2014
The memo, citing a heightened security threat, said that the attacks were scheduled for July 25, 2014.
Historical Examples of heightened
The eyes, either closed in sleep or appearing to be, heightened the effect.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
Your reputation, both for head and heart, as I hinted before, will be heightened.
Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9)Samuel Richardson
And then our enchantment is heightened by a prevailing duplication.
The cruel sensations of Imogen were not aggravated by despair, but heightened by hope.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
With heightened colour she met Tony's grave, searching eyes.
Jan and Her JobL. Allen Harker