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heighten

verb
  1. make more intense, stronger, or more marked
    compound
  2. increase
    raise
  3. make (one's senses) more acute
    sharpen
  4. make more extreme
  5. become more extreme
    “The tension heightened”
    rise
  6. increase the height of
    “The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars”