Ameliorate vs Heighten - What's the difference?
ameliorate | heighten | Related terms |
To make better, to improve.
* Macaulay
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.
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)- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* deteriorate * worsenheighten
English
Verb
Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006