heightened
Definitions
Verb
- Become more extreme
- Make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
- Increase
- Increase the height of
- Make (one's senses) more acute
- Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; ,
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Words that sound like the term "heightened".
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| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | height | 1 | 35 |
| 2 | frightened | 2 | 26 |
| 3 | straightened | 2 | 19 |
| 4 | eighteen | 2 | 17 |
| 5 | delighted | 3 | 16 |
| 6 | enlightened | 3 | 7 |
| 7 | tightened | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | lightened | 2 | 4 |
| 9 | weighted | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | brightened | 2 | 2 |
| 11 | heightening | 3 | 2 |
| 12 | benighted | 3 | 2 |
| 13 | heighten | 2 | 1 |
| 14 | high-end | 2 | 1 |
| 15 | enlighten | 3 | 1 |
| 16 | heightens | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | unenlightened | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | highspeed | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | heartened | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | eighteens | 2 | 0 |
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Term
Definitions: 6
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 18
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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