0 past simple and past participle of heighten
1 to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion or effect:
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.
