Main entry: intensify, heighten, deepen, compound
Definition: make more intense, stronger, or more marked
Usage: The efforts were intensified, Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her; Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness; This event only deepened my convictions
Main entry: enhance, raise, heighten
Definition: increase
Usage: This will enhance your enjoyment; heighten the tension
Definition: make (one's senses) more acute
Usage: This drug will sharpen your vision
Main entry: heighten
Definition: make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity
Usage: heightened interest
Definition: become more extreme
Usage: The tension heightened
Main entry: heighten
Definition: increase the height of
Usage: The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars