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It also points to genetic variations that heighten the risk of certain diseases.
From the sciencedaily.com
These thoughts only heighten our distress and swell our already strong emotions.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
When you heighten expectations and you don't meet them, people get disappointed.
From the dailyherald.com
These particular mutations heighten the risk of ovarian as well as breast cancer.
From the sciencedaily.com
So she managed only to heighten the impression of ill-co-ordinated floundering.
From the economist.com
At this stage, multiple visits would only heighten her desire for those things.
From the timesunion.com
Thien writes with an elegant economy whose spare sentences heighten the horror.
From the independent.co.uk
What I wish he'd heighten, then, is his theatricality, which has gone lax lately.
From the ocregister.com
Black Friday is poised to heighten the gloom for many brick-and-mortar retailers.
From the forbes.com
- Become more extreme; "The tension heightened"
- Enhance: increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"
- Increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"
- Sharpen: make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision"
- Intensify: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
- Heightening(a): reaching a higher intensity; "their heightening fears"
- To make high; to raise higher; to elevate; 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
- (heightened) increased in intensity or concentration; elevated, stepped-up
- The act of increasing the emotional level of a character or raising the stakes of a scene to make the potential consequences more extreme or dire.
