heighten
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
become more extreme
The tension heightened
Types & categories
- increase hypernym
Related & opposite
- rise derivation
Sense 2 verb
make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
heightened interest
Types & categories
- increase hypernym
Sense 3 verb
increase
This will enhance your enjoyment
Types & categories
- compound hypernym
- potentiate hyponym
Related & opposite
- enhancive derivation
Sense 4 verb
increase the height of
The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars
Types & categories
- lift hypernym
Sense 5 verb
make (one's senses) more acute
This drug will sharpen your vision
Types & categories
Sense 6 verb
make more intense, stronger, or more marked
The efforts were intensified
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- deepen causes
- intensification derivation
- intensiveness derivation
- intensifier derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | rise |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | enhancive |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | compound |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | potentiate |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | lift |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | compound |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | subtilise |
| 6 | causes | Related & opposite | deepen |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | intensification |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | intensiveness |
| 6 | derivation | Related & opposite | intensifier |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | increase |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | screw up |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | fan |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | enhance |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | amplify |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | sharpen |
| 6 | hyponym | Types & categories | heighten |