Word of the Day:
heighten
What It Means
To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
to heighten a flavor or a tint
Heighten in Context
“Black Bridge, near Machynlleth, is being heightened by one metre in a £3.6 million project to reduce delays caused by flooding.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English heightenen, hyghtenen, equivalent to height + -en (verbal suffix).
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: heighten (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the word and reformatted its meaning, examples and origin.
Cite this entry: “heighten.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/heighten. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
