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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of heighten.
  • adjective increased in intensity or concentration; elevated, stepped-up

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Examples

  • COOPER: Thelma, if tens of thousands of people are going through, what exactly are customs agents doing during this -- what they call the heightened alert?

    CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009 2009

  • COOPER: Thelma, with tens of thousands of people going through, what exactly are customs agents doing during this, what they call the heightened alert?

    CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2009 2009

  • It can also be seen in heightened spending on solar, wind, hydrogen, ethanol and clean coal technologies, as well as on other energy-investment decisions.

    About: Blinded by Science 2010

  • And as Krauss suggests, it's through such agency that teaching and learning occur in heightened form even as resistance, loss, regret, and sorrow would seem most capable of blocking them.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • And as Krauss suggests, it's through such agency that teaching and learning occur in heightened form even as resistance, loss, regret, and sorrow would seem most capable of blocking them.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • The constant trouble into which the narrator gets himself seems contrived, which isn't helped by the fact that the setting, against which this action ought to be heightened, is depicted cursorily at best.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • Fauvist color is often defined as "heightened"—concerned more with expressing the artist's emotional response to the subject in front of him than with replicating its appearance.

    A Modern Movement Unto Himself Lance Esplund 2011

  • If Israel is in heightened danger, it's because of the policies espoused by the likes of Liberman.

    Lieberman attacks Obama over foreign policy 2008

  • In the midst of our waiting room muted conversation, suddenly I broke out in heightened laughter after I realized what she had said.

    Spanish speaking can be fun! 2008

  • In the midst of our waiting room muted conversation, suddenly I broke out in heightened laughter after I realized what she had said.

    Spanish speaking can be fun! 2008

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