heighten
vt.& vi. (使)變高; (使)加強
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...
該舉動加劇了州里的緊張氣氛。
These latest murders have heightened fears of further attacks...
最近發生的這些謀殺案讓人們愈加擔心會出現更多的襲擊。
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
這些動詞均有"加強,增強"之意。
This will enhance your enjoyment ; heighten the tension.
這會增加你們的樂趣.
Heighten efficiency ; predigest working procedure to reduce cost.
在工作範圍內,不斷提高效率、簡化工作以降低成本.
Perform an operation is heighten safe?
動手術增高安全 嗎 ?
Unlike her father a writer, Ella doesn't heighten her interest in reading and writing at all.
埃拉對閱讀和寫作根本提不起興趣,這不像她的作家父親.
He took advantage of every opportunity to heighten racial tensions.
他利用一切機會加劇種族間的緊張關係.