heighten Copy link Outline I. Lit.II. To augment, enhance; to increase the effect of anything said or done1. incendo, di, sum, 3 (strictly, to kindle, cause to burn more brightly)2. amplĭfĭco, 1 (to set off by effective language)3. exaggĕro, 1 (like amplifico, but used both in good and bad sense) • heighten: I. Lit.: to raise higher: expr. by altior and a verb: to h. a wall, *murum altiorem exaedificare, efferre. II. To augment, enhance; to increase the effect of anything said or done: 1. incendo, di, sum, 3 (strictly, to kindle, cause to burn more brightly): to h. any one's desire, cupiditatem alicujus in., Cic. Fam. 15, 21, init.: to h. our guilt, in. vitia nostra, Sen. Brev. Vit. 16, 3: he h.'d the effect of what he said by tears, incendebat haec fletu, Tac. A. 1, 23. 2. amplĭfĭco, 1 (to set off by effective language): to h. (any one's) glory, gloriam a. (opp. to minuere), Cic. Ac. 2, 2, 5. Join: dicendo amplificare atque ornare, Cic. Or. 1, 51, 221. 3. exaggĕro, 1 (like amplifico, but used both in good and bad sense): to dwell upon, set off, h. what is good, aliquid boni amplecti, exornare, ex., Cic. de Or. 2, 72, 292: to h. the wrong done to us, ex. injuriam nostram, Quint. 6, 2, 23. Join: exaggerare et amplificare [orationem], Cic. de Or. 3, 27, 105. Phr.: to h. a favour, gratiam, Plin. Ep. 3, 1, 7. See also to aggravate.