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Meliorate vs Heighten - What's the difference?

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Meliorate is a related term of heighten.


As verbs the difference between meliorate and heighten

is that meliorate is to make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem while heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

meliorate

English

Verb

(meliorat)
  • To make better, to improve; to heal or solve a problem.
    • They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.
  • * Denham
    • Nature by art we nobly meliorate .
  • * Washington
    • The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

    Synonyms

    * See also * ameliorate

    Derived terms

    * meliorable * meliorative * meliorator

    Related terms

    * ameliorate English transitive verbs

    heighten

    English

    Verb

  • 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, Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
  • *: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.