Heightened is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HEIGHTENED in dictionary:

VERB:
• HEIGHTEN, to raise
• make or become more intense
• make (something) higher

Words related to HEIGHTENED

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How to use HEIGHTENED in a sentence

• I had moved but a few steps, yet to my heightened senses, the noise seemed loud enough to wake the dead.
• And, let it be remembered, the grotesque costume of the bard wonderfully heightened the effect.
• I would not be surprised, also, if he reflected that there might be some selfishness in his hostility, or at least that it was heightened by apprehensions personal to himself.
• This is heightened by the high character and the peaceful and orderly conduct of its resident inhabitants.
• This was heightened, too, by a rapidly developed sense of personal grievance.
• The reader was hurried along through scenes of rapid action, whose effect was heightened by wild landscapes and picturesque manners.
• We all breathed more freely when he took his departure, and there was a general sense of heightened enjoyment abroad.
• The light of the moon heightened the whiteness of the sheet, and it seemed to him as though those terrible eyes shone through the cloth.
• Her great natural beauty was, if not heightened, rendered more obvious by her attire.
• The discovery of the iron door behind it further heightened their suspicion that the place of concealment was found.
• Surprise brought a slightly heightened color to her cheek.
• The last meeting with his men had given him a new strength, a heightened manhood.
• The terror which legitimately followed from the actual perils was heightened by imaginary fears.
• The pleasant taste of freedom was heightened by the spice of heading into the unknown, and by night.
• With his hand he brushed from his eyes the vision that he knew to be nothing but a heightened memory.
• The next time they passed, Stephen granted the girl a certain charm of expression which heightened the effect of beauty.
• There was agitation in the city when the chimney was being heightened.
• The effect of the contrast is further heightened when we remember that Guarini never for a moment doubted that he had far surpassed the work of his predecessor.
• The strangeness of the scene, witnessed under the declining sun of that desert land, was heightened by the fact that all these furious Moslems were seen from above.
• Under moderate anger the action of the heart is a little increased, the colour heightened, and the eyes become bright.
• This veneration was heightened by the popular traditions which assigned to Moses the bulk of their legislation, and traced it through him to Jehovah himself.
• The impression made by such a scene on such a company is heightened by a rare atmospheric calm.
• If I am lacking in compassion for my red brother, the lack has been heightened by his fiendish atrocities to dumb animals.
• Eval, to Miss Grahame, who, as may be supposed, heightened and encouraged them.
• I must think such a government well deserved to have its excellences heightened, its faults corrected, and its capacities improved into a British Constitution.
• He drove on and the woman, who had wrapped her cloak about her as the biting wind of the hills heightened through the narrow defiles to the north, followed.
• He observed her heightened color, but as she made no complaint he allowed it to pass without comment.
• It was Julie all in white, a semi-evening dress that heightened in a wonderful fashion her glorious, blond beauty.
• This effect of the surrounding surely can and must be much heightened in the artistic theater play.

Similar words containing HEIGHTEN without suffix ed

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