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Ameliorate vs Heighten - What's the difference?

ameliorate | heighten | Related terms |

Ameliorate is a related term of heighten.


As verbs the difference between ameliorate and heighten

is that ameliorate is to make better, to improve while heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

ameliorate

English

Verb

(ameliorat)
  • To make better, to improve.
    • They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
  • * Macaulay
    • In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.

    Related terms

    * amelioration * ameliorative * ameliorable * inameliorable * meliorate

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * deteriorate * worsen

    heighten

    English

    Verb

  • To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
  • To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
  • :to heighten beauty
  • :to heighten a flavor or a tint.
  • * 2006 , Ashley Seager, Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
  • *:If Mr Brown chooses, he could raise his estimate of the economy's "trend" rate of growth in the coming years and so heighten his hopes of tax revenues.