heighten
/ˈhaɪ̯.tən/ verb C1- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
- To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc. · to heighten beauty· to heighten a flavor or a tint
He/she/it heightens · Past heightened · Past participle heightened · -ing form heightening
Verb forms
- Base form
- heighten
- He/she/it
- heightens
- Past
- heightened
- Past participle
- heightened
- -ing form
- heightening
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Green it might be called, if it were any earthly color--a queer, dull, bronzy green, with streaks here and there of the original red to heighten the ghastly effect.
I really do not think Georgiana Darcy has her equal for beauty, elegance, and accomplishments; and the affection she inspires in Louisa and myself is heightened into something still more interesting from the hope we dare to entertain of her being hereafter our sister.
Wickham’s alarm now appeared in a heightened complexion and agitated look; for a few minutes he was silent; till, shaking off his embarrassment, he turned to her again, and said in the gentlest of accents,--
Elizabeth listened with delight to the happy though modest hopes which Jane entertained of Bingley’s regard, and said all in her power to heighten her confidence in it.
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