Betekenis van:
heighten

to heighten
Werkwoord
  • dieper maken; uitdiepen
  • increase
"heighten the tension"

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

Hyponiemen

to heighten
Werkwoord
  • uitspitten; uitspitten
  • increase
"heighten the tension"

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

Hyponiemen

to heighten
Werkwoord
  • versterken
  • make more intense, stronger, or more marked
"Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

Hyponiemen

to heighten
Werkwoord
    • increase the height of
    "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

    Hyperoniemen

    to heighten
    Werkwoord
      • become more extreme
      "The tension heightened"

      Synoniemen

      Hyperoniemen

      to heighten
      Werkwoord
        • make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
        "heightened interest"

        Hyperoniemen

        to heighten
        Werkwoord
          • make (one's senses) more acute

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          Voorbeeldzinnen

          1. The lessons learned from the annals of history on peak wood should heighten our awareness of the consequences of the limits of natural resources.
          2. Instead, the subsidy tends to heighten the incentive for suppliers to use their market power.
          3. In this connection, it approved the European Pact for Gender Equality that should further heighten the profile of gender mainstreaming and give impetus to improving the perspectives and opportunities of women on a broad scale.
          4. to enable the creation of an interoperable rail backbone across Europe (coined hereafter as ETCS-Net) enabling the development of new and improved quality rail services that can ultimately heighten the competitive profile of rail transport notably in those market segments of major growth potential — e.g. international freight transport;