Heighten vs Adduce - What's the difference?
heighten | adduce | Related terms |
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,
*: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.
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.
:* Reasons ... were adduced on both sides. - .
:* Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - .
:* Whoever in discussion adduces authority, uses not reason but memory. -
:* For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, -
Heighten is a related term of adduce.
As verbs the difference between heighten and adduce
is that heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate while adduce is to bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.heighten
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Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006