Hyphenation of heighten

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word heighten? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

height-en

Definitions of heighten:

1.	Become more extreme The tension heightened
2.	Make more extreme Raise in quantity, degree, or intensity Heightened interest
3.	Increase This will enhance your enjoyment Heighten the tension
4.	Increase the height of The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars
5.	Make (one's senses) more acute This drug will sharpen your vision
6.	Make more intense, stronger, or more marked The efforts were intensified
7.	Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness This event only deepened my convictions

Synonyms of heighten:

verb	rise, increase
verb	increase
verb	enhance, raise, intensify, compound, deepen
verb	raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up
verb	sharpen, intensify, compound, deepen
verb	intensify, compound, deepen, increase

Last hyphenations of this language

sensigenous semichorus semitonally semisupination sensify inenarrably sensiblest sensibleness sensibilize semimanneristic sensibilisin sauteur PROCEDURE bureaucracy sensibilia foresighted senses sense-confounding senopia

Hyphenator

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