| verb | become more extreme “The tension heightened” |
| verb | make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity “heightened interest” |
| verb | increase “This will enhance your enjoyment” |
| verb | increase the height of “The athletes kept jumping over the steadily heightened bars” |
| verb | make (one's senses) more acute “This drug will sharpen your vision” |
| verb | make more intense, stronger, or more marked; , “The efforts were intensified” |
| rise | noun | a growth in strength or number or importance |
| enhancive | adjective | intensifying by augmentation and enhancement |
| intensity | noun | high level or degree; the property of being intense |
| intensification | noun | action that makes something stronger or more extreme |
| intensifier | noun | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies |