Usually means: Increases or intensifies degree or level.
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  1. heightens: Merriam-Webster
  2. heightens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. heightens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Heightens, heightens: Wordnik
  5. heightens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. heightens: Wiktionary
  7. heightens: Dictionary.com
  8. heightens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. heightens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heightens: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heighten)

verb:  To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
verb:  To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
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