HEIGHTEN Copy link • HEIGHTENCarry up higher (of a building), aliquid altius efferre (after Cic., Rep., 3, 3, 4). To increase anything in extent, strength, intensity, etc., efferre: majus reddere: augere: exaggerare (opposed to extenuare aliquid, to represent it as great, noble, etc.): acuere (to sharpen; e.g., industriam). To heighten the beauties of anything (by a description), aliquid verbis adornare or oratione exornare.