Punctuate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To provide (a text) with punctuation marks.
  • v. To interrupt periodically: "lectures punctuated by questions and discussions” ( Gilbert Highet). "[There is] a great emptiness in America's West punctuated by Air Force bases” ( Alfred Kazin).
  • v. To stress or emphasize.
  • verb-intransitive. To use punctuation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. to add punctuation to
  • v. to add or to interrupt at regular intervals
  • v. to emphasize, to stress
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In writing and printing, to mark with points in some significant manner; specifically, to divide into sentences and parts of sentences by the conventional signs called points or marks of punctuation: as, to punctuate one's letters carefully. See punctuation.
  • Figuratively, to emphasize by some significant or forcible action; enforce the important parts or points of in some special manner: as, to punctuate one's remarks by gestures.
  • In entomology, same as punctured.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. interrupt periodically
  • v. insert punctuation marks into
  • v. to stress, single out as important
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    disrupt    cut-off    interrupt    breakup   
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    dot    emphasize   
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