heightened
USHY-tuhnd/ˈhaɪtənd/
- 1Made stronger or more intense than usual.
Like turning up the volume on a radio so the sound feels stronger.
Soldiers on patrol felt a heightened sense of danger.
There was heightened excitement in the room before the concert started.
Similarelevated, raised, acute, greater
Oppositereduced, diminished, lessened
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- 2Simple past and past participle of heighten. Use this form for something that already happened.
The new lighting heightened the mood of the whole room.
Years of careful training heightened her senses.
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heightened is a form of heighten
heighten, verb: To make a feeling or quality stronger, greater, or more intense. Full entry
- Forms
- heightenheightens he/she/itheightening -ing formheightened past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- heighten → heightened: add -ed
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