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