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v. To give emphasis to; stress.

v. To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

v. To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic.

To utter or pronounce with emphasis; render emphatic; lay stress upon: as, to emphasize a syllable, word, or declaration; to emphasize a passage in reading.

To bring out clearly or distinctly; make more obvious or more positive; give a stronger perception of.

v. give extra weight to (a communication)

v. to stress, single out as important

"Immediately following the excerpt that you chose to emphasize is this: the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed and ordered (e.g. the Commissar Order) war crimes of their own, particularly during the invasion of Poland in 1939 [5] and later in the war against the Soviet Union."

disregard    de-emphasize    downplay   

emphasized    emphasizes    emphasizing   

emphasise    punctuate    stress    accentuate    accent   

emphatic    emphasis   

emphasized    emphasizing    reemphasize    underemphasize    overemphasize   

accentuate    stress    mark    punctuate    underline    underscore    enforce   

overemphasize    reemphasize