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词汇 heightened
释义 heightened
past simple and past participle ofheighten
heighten
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˈhaɪ.tən/ us /ˈhaɪ.t̬ən/
to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect: (使)(尤指某种情绪或效果)增强,加强
The strong police presence only heightened the tension among the crowd.大批警察的出现只能使人群更加紧张。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulative
accumulatively
add fuel to the fireidiom
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crank
go into orbitidiom
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growingly
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ramp something up
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re-escalate
re-escalation
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Examples of heightened


heightened

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


The heightened baseline pain state reached a peak at 3 weeks post-injury, and diminished back to baseline by 1 year.
For myself, repeated reading has heightened appreciation of both its achievement and its gaps.
Security concerns are naturally heightened during such events.
At the center of this administrative rethink has been a heightened commitment to consumer education.
The risk may also be heightened when the practitioner is alone and the judgement or opinion of another practitioner is not readily available.
Boys with disruptive symptoms continued to show heightened cortisol reactivity.
These differences may be heightened further by the exaggerated prosody of child-directed speech.
Perhaps paradoxically, it is at these moments of heightened visuality that music is called upon to lend its essential contribution to the theatrical experience.
Shortly before passage, turmoil over private benefits was intense and interest in state measures heightened.
Therefore, it is unlikely that blackballing activities caused or heightened voter cynicism.
The recently increased numbers of visitors to concentrations of wildlife, and to penguin rookeries in particular, have heightened concern over this issue.
This effect is heightened by the increasing importance of trade impediments, which have a much higher information complexity than the tariff, such as sanitary standards.
The ability to withstand desiccation may also depend upon increased amounts (or a heightened capacity to synthesize) molecules which stabilize membranes.
The writer argues that there is a need among learners for a heightened critical awareness of web-source nuances.
Consistent with the experimental animal and epidemiologic human research summarized above, these individuals are hypothesized to develop heightened reactivity profiles.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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