Accentuate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding” ( James Fallows).
  • v. To pronounce with a stress or accent.
  • v. To mark with an accent.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
  • v. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
  • v. To mark with a written accent.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
  • v. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
  • v. To mark with the written accent.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To mark or pronounce with an accent or with accents; place an accent or accents on. To lay stress upon; emphasize; give prominence to; mark as of importance: as, he accentuated the views of the party on this question.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. to stress, single out as important
  • v. put stress on; utter with an accent
    • Verb Form
    accentuated    accentuates    accentuating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    articulate    enunciate    say    sound out    pronounce    enounce   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    emphasize    accent   
     
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