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heighten: make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity; "heightened interest"; become more extreme; "The tension heightened"; increase the height of; "The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars"

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soup up collapse: make more powerful; "he souped up the old cars"

aught collapse

escalate collapse: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

triple collapse: a base hit at which the batter stops safely at third base; a quantity that is three times as great as another; increase threefold; "Triple your income!"; hit a three-base hit

redouble collapse: make twice as great or intense; "The screaming redoubled"; double again; "The noise doubled and redoubled"; double in magnitude, extent, or intensity; "The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio"

hoist collapse: lifting device for raising heavy or cumbersome objects; raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car"; raise; "hoist the flags"; "hoist a sail"; move from one place to another by lifting; "They hoisted the patient onto the operating table"

beef up collapse

jazz up collapse: make more interesting or lively; "juice up a party"; "pep up your paper"

levitate collapse: be suspended in the air, as if in defiance of gravity; "The guru claimed that he could levitate"; cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity; "The magician levitated the woman"

endow collapse: furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got dowered"; give qualities or abilities to

upraise collapse

lob collapse: the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc; an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc; propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball"

deepen collapse: become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"; make deeper; "They deepened the lake so that bigger pleasure boats could use it"

cast up collapse

adorn collapse

uprear collapse

hot up collapse

stick up collapse

augment collapse: enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"; grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented"

exacerbate collapse: exasperate or irritate

intensify collapse: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"; make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"; make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

heft collapse: the property of being large in mass; test the weight of something by lifting it

ripen collapse: grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July"; cause to ripen or develop fully; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine"

embitter collapse: cause to be bitter or resentful; "These injustices embittered her even more"

heist collapse: the act of stealing

heat up collapse: make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up"

accelerate collapse: move faster; "The car accelerated"; cause to move faster; "He accelerated the car"

ramify collapse: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large"

complicate collapse: make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern"; make more complicated; "There was a new development that complicated the matter"

key up collapse

sharpen collapse: become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened"; make sharp or sharper; "We had to sharpen our arguments"; make (one's senses) more acute; "This drug will sharpen your vision"; give a point to; "The candles are tapered"; raise the pitch of (musical notes); make sharp or sharper; "sharpen the knives"; make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

enhance collapse: increase; "This will enhance your enjoyment"; "heighten the tension"; make better or more attractive; "This sauce will enhance the flavor of the meat"

burgeon collapse: grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

throw up collapse

buoy up collapse

enlarge collapse: make larger; "She enlarged the flower beds"; become larger or bigger

elevate collapse

aggrandize collapse

multiply collapse: in several ways; in a multiple manner; "they were multiply checked for errors"; combine or increase by multiplication; "He managed to multiply his profits"; combine by multiplication; "multiply 10 by 15"

deteriorate collapse: become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"

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