(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.
Invigorate
Definition:
(v. t.) To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment and prevention of menstrual disorders of women at high altitudes could be carried out by invigorating Qi, regulating blood, promoting the flow of Qi, by warming the channel and regulating Zang and Fu, etc.
(2) "This will transform and invigorate the whole nature of Scottish television news while the parallel use of web platforms will engage and involve viewers in a way which has never been ventured on this scale."
(3) David Folkerts-Landau, chief economist with Deutsche Bank, has also said the influx of refugees has “the potential not just to invigorate our economy but to protect prosperity for future generations”.
(4) To the dark immensity of material Nature's indifference we can oppose only the brief light, like a lamp in a cabin, of our consciousness; the invigorating benison of Walden is to make us feel that the contest is equal, and fair.
(5) As a journalist, I confess that watching her is both invigorating and rather intimidating.
(6) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(7) Barack Obama is pinning his hopes on a re-invigorated Iraqi army and moderate Syrian rebels to help defeat militants who are menacing northern Iraq and Syria, as part of a new, detailed strategy to step up American military intervention to confront the movement.
(8) Spurs were invigorated and when Kane curled in a beauty two minutes later, taking aim from a position where most players would not even have thought a shot was on, the ground was in a state of near-euphoria.
(9) The treatment of 488 cases with anorexy in children showed that the curative effect of the group using Chinese medicines based on the differentiation of symptoms and signs by (1) activating the Spleen, (2) invigorating and activating the spleen was significantly higher than the control using concentrated vitamin B complex (P less than 0.001).
(10) At first glance Van Gaal resembled a chef who had been asked to provide a roast dinner, only to find that there was no meat in the fridge, yet United’s manager was invigorated by the challenge of solving the tactical puzzle and Watford struggled to come to terms with the visitors’ fluid formation at first.
(11) Before she appeared on stage alongside her father, speakers warmed up the crowd with the invigorating soul classic Midnight Train to Georgia.
(12) This study investigated, with microelectrode technic, the effects of electrical activities in pacemaker cells of sinoatrial node by Qixue injection consisting of Ginseng, Astragali and Angelicae sinensis, which may replenish the Qi and invigorate the circulation of blood.
(13) Following recent advances in molecular and cell biology, development of hepatocyte transplantation has been considerably invigorated.
(14) "The effects of inbreeding may not be as noticeable in the first generation as the invigoration immediately apparent after crossing".
(15) Smethers is hoping to tap into the new energy of an invigorated women’s movement, which has seen the emergence of online campaigns such as the Everyday Sexism project, and No More Page 3 .
(16) Such action invigorates reflection, and vice versa.
(17) Older stagers, like the white-bearded John Tinmouth, who arrives clutching Frances Stonor Saunders's book about the CIA funding of the arts, are invigorated by the presence of the younger arrivals.
(18) Hopefully the Chancellor is invigorated following her trip yesterday to a beer tent in Abensberg, Bavaria.... More liquidity needed.
(19) White announced his role on the Record Store Day website , saying he would be "proud to help in any way I can to invigorate whoever will listen with the idea that there is beauty and romance in the act of visiting a record shop and getting turned on to something new that could change the way they look at the world, other people, art, and ultimately, themselves."
(20) It started in the community but it has invigorated the women’s movement and brought coalitions together with a real impact in every direction.” We’ll find out which direction today.