Heighten vs Emphasize - What's the difference?
heighten | emphasize |
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 stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
As verbs the difference between heighten and emphasize
is that heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate while emphasize is to stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).heighten
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Verb
Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
emphasize
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Alternative forms
* emphasiseVerb
(emphasiz)- His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.