Heighten vs Fatten - 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 become fatter
To cause to be fatter
To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
Heighten is a related term of fatten.
As verbs the difference between heighten and fatten
is that heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate while fatten is to become fatter.heighten
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Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
fatten
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(en verb)- He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
- We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
- to fatten land
- (Dryden)