heighten

Verb

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked
  • The efforts were intensified, Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her
    
  • Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness
    
  • This event only deepened my convictions
    

• make (one's senses) more acute
  • This drug will sharpen your vision
    

• increase the height of
  • The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars
    

• increase
  • This will enhance your enjoyment
    
  • heighten the tension
    

• make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
  • heightened interest
    

• become more extreme
  • The tension heightened
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  intensify , compound , deepen , sharpen , enhance , raise , rise