Heighten vs Aggrandise - What's the difference?
heighten | aggrandise | 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.
Heighten is a related term of aggrandise.
As verbs the difference between heighten and aggrandise
is that heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate while aggrandise is .heighten
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Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
