heighten 的 2 个定义
- to increase the height of; make higher.
- to increase the degree or amount of; augment: Cézanne's death heightened the value of his paintings.
- to strengthen, deepen, or intensify: to heighten the plot of a story; to heighten one's awareness or appreciation; to heighten one's suffering.
- to bring out the important features of, as in a drawing: to heighten a picture with Chinese white.
- to become higher.
- to increase: The tension heightened as the enemy forces advanced.
- to brighten or become more intense.
heighten 近义词
intensify
更多heighten例句
- These concerns are heightened by the FDA’s premature EUA of hydroxychloroquine prior to testing last spring, an approval the FDA later withdrew.
- A pandemic-induced economic collapse will only heighten the vulnerabilities and speed the transition, reducing to nothing whatever thin margin of financial protection has kept people in place.
- Long-term care residents also are at heightened risk of institutional abuse and neglect.
- They say the fact that the utility is getting out of the power-buying business, and will be relying on the 10 percent return it gets to build things, heightens the importance of the charge.
- Instead, an unusual number of problems have occurred — some serious enough that they have made it harder for people to vote and even put them at a heightened risk for infection.
- Dirty talk can be a huge part of foreplay and even heighten the experience of sex for some.
- Or really more that Instagram is no different than these paintings of yore that served to heighten status.
- “AIDS is effecting the world, so I wanted to heighten the awareness that we are all in the same boat,” Mooney said.
- And the fact the line was moved from a scene in the middle of the film to one at the end only served to heighten its impact.
- He has spoken about how he would listen to her to smooth over the rough days, or heighten his joy.
- She is sometimes tempted to heighten a little the incidents, in order to get on a little better, and to make more impression.
- After the feeling had come to her, to heighten the sensation she espied a little card hung under the small mirror on the wall.
- The youthful pair start beneath the smile of a blue sky, flecked with milk-while clouds merely to heighten the effect.
- I cannot say that it will increase our pleasure, but it will certainly heighten the interest of the morning excursion.
- Moreover, an action of Agathocles himself served to heighten the anger of the multitude and of Tlepolemus.