(v. t.) To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
(v. t.) To carry forward; to advance; to increase; to augment; to aggravate; to intensify; to render more conspicuous; -- used of things, good or bad; as, to heighten beauty; to heighten a flavor or a tint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bereaved individuals were significantly more likely to report heightened dysphoria, dissatisfaction, and somatic disturbances typical of depression, even when variations in age, sex, number of years married, and educational and occupational status were taken into account.
(2) Panic disorder subjects showed a negative relationship between pulmonary function and hyperventilation symptoms, suggesting a heightened sensitivity to, and discomfort with, sensations associated with normal pulmonary function.
(3) These results suggest that DA and NA, when injected into the MSN, heighten the functional level of the hippocampus.
(4) Tension heightened last week after Davis continued to refuse licenses to couples; on Friday, she filed a request to the supreme court to stay the lower court’s decision.
(5) The tonic influences were expressed in an increase in the amplitude parameters of the responses of the visual cortex in conditions of the formation in the posterolateral nucleus of the thalamus of a focus of heightened excitability (anode polarization), and their perceptible diminution with potassium depression in this nucleus.
(6) This increased cell flow down the early stages of the red cell pathway in CML suggests that heightened proliferation and differentiation of primitive hemopoietic cells may be a more general phenomenon than previously suspected in this disease.
(7) Measures of effect of the training found the following: a significant increase in knowledge scores, although the trainees came into the program with relatively high scores; a heightened awareness and increased positive attitudes toward aging; high ratings of performance on a functionally oriented comprehensive health assessment; and augmented geriatric curriculum and clinical training in their home PA programs.
(8) The extra enforcement produced increases in the use of seat belts by drivers during the four months of the heightened enforcement.
(9) The data support the hypothesis that the learning decrement found among older men is not simply a manifestation of structural change in the central nervous system but is, at least in part, associated with the heightened arousal of the autonomic nervous system that accompanies the learning task.
(10) A huge security operation is under way across the country, with 90,000 police, army and security staff responding to the heightened threat level.
(11) Serial measurements of fibroblast proliferation-stimulating-activity in samples of BAL fluid obtained from serial examinations in two patients exhibited heightened pretreatment activity that returned to the normal range following corticosteroid therapy.
(12) The presence of cardiovascular hyperreactivity together with the absence of noncardiovascular hyperreactivity in HT indicates heightened SNS-activity specific to the cardiovascular system and not part of generalized SNS-arousal.
(13) There may also be modest positive effects of such new awards in the form of heightened popular esteem for science and interest in it.
(14) The aggression-heightening effects of alcohol were seen during the high-rate interactions in the initial phase of the confrontation and particularly during the lower level of fighting later on.
(15) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(16) We conclude that if the role of physicians is to aid and protect patients against disease or experimentation on humans, then he or she must maintain heightened political awareness in order to deal with social crises before they overwhelm any response.
(17) The heightened autoimmune reactivity being detectable during the preclinical period, lasting months to years, has been proved by antibodies directed against cytoplasmic islet cell antigens (ICA), beta cell surface antigens (ICSA), insulin (IAA), and with a lower frequency against non-islet cell antigens.
(18) The rising survival rate is due to heightened awareness of this injury, which should be suspected in all patients who have sustained high-energy trauma.
(19) With a major new attack on American soil falling in the last week which the FBI is investigating as an act of terrorism , however, the president will speak on Sunday night in a climate of heightened fear and in the face of growing pressure to demonstrate results.
(20) The finding may imply a non-endocrine hormonal process leading to heightened local TNF responses.
Intensify
Definition:
(v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
(v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The discussion on topics like post-schooling and rehabilitation of motorists has intensified the contacts between advocates of traffic law and traffic psychologists in the last years.
(2) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(3) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(4) First, SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an intensified hepatic microsomal polypeptide (MW 54,000) following picloram pretreatment.
(5) This effect could be intensified by a preceding treatment of the animal with androgens.
(6) In a recent study, Orr and Lanzetta (1984) showed that the excitatory properties of fear facial expressions previously described (Lanzetta & Orr, 1981; Orr & Lanzetta, 1980) do not depend on associative mechanisms; even in the absence of reinforcement, fear faces intensify the emotional reaction to a previously conditioned stimulus and disrupt extinction of an acquired fear response.
(7) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(8) Besides, the movement of mitochondria to the neuronal processes is intensified.
(9) President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government has joined MPs, bloggers and local media in denouncing the newly-released Warner Brothers epic, 300, as a calculated attempt to demonise Iran at a time of intensifying US pressure over the country's nuclear programme.
(10) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(11) Families fear that after April’s disaster the cycle of poverty in the region will be intensified.
(12) These data indicate the existence of diverse, proinflammatory interactions of pyocyanin and 1-hp with human phagocytes, which may intensify neutrophil-mediated tissue damage during P. aeruginosa infections.
(13) Under identical conditions methandrostenon intensified the proteins synthesis in the nuclear fraction of the liver alone.
(14) The resolution also opens the door for other bodies, such as the European Union and the International Criminal Court, to intensify their pressure on Israel to desist from its illegal practices on the West Bank and its war crimes in Gaza.
(15) In this state, IPPV did not reduce the blood pressure in the supine position, and did not intensify its fall when the upper body was raised.
(16) After 10 months exposure to Fenthion, cellular necrosis and gliosis intensified in the CA4 and CA3 regions and occasionally involved the CA2.
(17) So far 34 patients in complete remission have been given one or two courses of the intensified consolidation therapy with high-dose cytosine-arabinoside and daunorubicin.
(18) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.
(19) Two sets of a twin-focus X-ray tube and a 12-inch image intensifier (II) were mounted on the gantry in the isocentric and cross-firing positions.
(20) Elsewhere in the brain, minimal involvement of the entorhinal cortex neurons occurred 3 days postexposure and intensified by 7 days.