Break and Heighten

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Break verb - To diminish the price or value of.

Usage example: distressing economic news that will break many energy stocks

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Heighten is an antonym for break.

Nearby Words: breach, breakdown, breaking, breakup, breakable

Heighten verb - To make markedly greater in measure or degree.

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Break is an antonym for heighten.

Nearby Words: height, heightening

power	break power	heighten power
control	break control	heighten control

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Heighten and Break. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/break/heighten

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