Emphasize

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  • transitive verb. To give emphasis to; stress.
  • transitive verb. To cause to appear important or deserving of attention.
  • transitive verb. To give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give extra weight to (a communication)
  • verb. to stress, single out as important
    • Word Usage
    "The only reason to note this is to again emphasize that Indians were a special case created by the peculiar history of the United States."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    de-emphasize  disregard  downplay  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    accent  accentuate  emphasise  punctuate  stress  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    overemphasize  reemphasize  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    accent  accentuate  accentuate  assert  bear down on  
    verb-form
    emphasized  emphasizes  emphasizing  
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