heightened level

collocation in English

meaningsofheightenandlevel

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heighten
verb[I or T]
uk
/ˈhaɪ.tən/us
/ˈhaɪ.t̬ən/
to increase or make something increase, especially an emotion ...
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level
noun[C]
uk
/ˈlev.əl/us
/ˈlev.əl/
the height ...
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(Definition ofheightenandlevelfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Its appearance here suggests aheightenedlevelof rhetoric, an intensified censure.
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In performance, she finds that her senses are awakened and open to aheightenedlevelof sensitivity.
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The decisions made by individual employees therefore have aheightenedlevelof significance.
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It also raises the possibility that these kinds of victimization may serve as "gateway" victimizations that inaugurate aheightenedlevelof the exposure to victimization in general.
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In addition to thisheightenedlevelof political conflict, the transition would entail serious financial consequences for the losing side.
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All that would require aheightenedlevelof public awareness of the responsibilities of finders to our archaeological inheritance—in effect, an educational process.
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Individual members and the group as a whole begin to operate with aheightenedlevelof energy and sense of future possibility.
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An awakening was underway in the new generation with thisheightenedlevelof interest in music.
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There is also aheightenedlevelof attention paid to literature in the media.
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Delivery of incentives increases the rate of adjunctive behaviors by generating aheightenedlevelof general activity, or arousal, in organisms.
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It provides aheightenedlevelof excitement and competition to the sports they are cheering for.
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She also has aheightenedlevelof perception of others' feelings.
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Increase in personal fable ideation, feelings of invulnerability, among emerging adults may explain theheightenedlevelof maladaptive behaviors among this group.
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This further added to the patient's alreadyheightenedlevelof discomfort.
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Heightened levels of generalized and somatic anxiety were equally distributed among all age groups.
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When those groups decide to use violence, they also enjoy aheightenedlevelof lethality and are protected from defection and other forms of intervention by states and outside groups.
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During the critical period of a brain region, growth in neurons occurs essentially in dendrites, and is manifest in heightened levels of synaptogenesis.
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Troubled girls, in contrast, were expected to show heightened levels of aggression more typical of girls, relative to children without problems, that is, more modulated aggression.
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Multiple emotion processing deficits- including emotion attribution accuracy, anger attribution bias, and self-repor t of empathy- placed children at risk for heightened levels of teacher-repor ted aggression.
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This may be a consequence of the subjectivity of self-reported pain,23 in addition to overall heightened levels of anxiety exhibited by the participants of this study.
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