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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Heighten \Height"en\ (h[imac]t"'n), verb (used with an object) [Written also {highten}.] [imp. & p. p. {Heightened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Heightening}.]
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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "heightened": accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, deepened, deliberately provoked, elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, hiked, hotted up, increased, inflated, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, proliferated, provoked, raised, reinforced, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened, widened, worse, worsened
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