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heightening

/hahyt-n/US // ˈhaɪt n //UK // (ˈhaɪtən) //

增高,加高,提高,增益

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to become higher.
    • : to increase: The tension heightened as the enemy forces advanced.
    • : to brighten or become more intense.

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Examples

  • 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.