heighten
vt.& vi. (使)变高; (使)加强
If something heightens a feeling or if the feeling heightens, the feeling increases in degree or intensity.
The move has heightened tension in the state...
该举动加剧了州里的紧张气氛。
These latest murders have heightened fears of further attacks...
最近发生的这些谋杀案让人们愈加担心会出现更多的袭击。
1. become more extreme;
2. make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity;
3. increase;
4. increase the height of;
5. make (one's senses) more acute;
6. make more intense, stronger, or more marked;
enhance, heighten, intensify, aggravate
这些动词均有"加强,增强"之意。
This will enhance your enjoyment ; heighten the tension.
这会增加你们的乐趣.
Heighten efficiency ; predigest working procedure to reduce cost.
在工作范围内,不断提高效率、简化工作以降低成本.
Perform an operation is heighten safe?
动手术增高安全 吗 ?
Unlike her father a writer, Ella doesn't heighten her interest in reading and writing at all.
埃拉对阅读和写作根本提不起兴趣,这不像她的作家父亲.
He took advantage of every opportunity to heighten racial tensions.
他利用一切机会加剧种族间的紧张关系.