Heighten vs Extend - What's the difference?
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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 increase in extent.
To possess a certain extent.
To cause to increase in extent.
To cause to last for a longer period of time.
To straighten (a limb).
To bestow; to offer; to impart; to apply.
To increase in quantity by weakening or adulterating additions.
(UK, legal) To value, as lands taken by a writ of extent in satisfaction of a debt; to assign by writ of extent.
As verbs the difference between heighten and extend
is that heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate while extend is to increase in extent.heighten
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Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
extend
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(en verb)- to extend sympathy to the suffering
- to extend liquors