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emphasize
[ em-fuh-sahyz ]
verb (used with object)
to emphasize a point;
to emphasize the eyes with mascara.
Synonyms: highlight, accentuate, accent
emphasize
/ ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz /
verb
- tr to give emphasis or prominence to; stress
Other Words From
- hy·per·em·pha·size verb (used with object) hyperemphasized hyperemphasizing
- mis·em·pha·size verb (used with object) misemphasized misemphasizing
- re·em·pha·size verb (used with object) reemphasized reemphasizing
- su·per·em·pha·size verb (used with object) superemphasized superemphasizing
- un·em·pha·siz·ing adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of emphasize1
Example Sentences
The pharmaceutical industry and public health officials must emphasize safety first.
“We are not claiming we found life on Venus,” Seager emphasizes.
InMarket also emphasizes third party validation of its audience targeting and attribution methodology, as well as location-data accuracy.
This book emphasizes that nothing is fixed—not intelligence, not capacity, not skill set.
You emphasize how easy it is for anyone to be taken in throughout the series.
Many Americans move to places that de-emphasize the particularities of their local community.
The pictures of Gilkes emphasize, quite rightly and inevitably, his classic good looks.
Sharpton would later emphasize to The Daily Beast that he neither possesses nor desires such power.
In 2014, it appears, the key to winning in a swing state is to avoid talking about issues and emphasize pig castration.
And as if to emphasize their accounts, in early afternoon a U.S. airstrike hit a building in the middle of Kobani.
I have wanted him to do it absolutely on his own, and I could not emphasize this better than by coming right away to Mudros.
The centenary of Petrarch celebrated at Avignon in 1874 tended to emphasize the importance and the glory of the new literature.
Wherefore Bud had deliberately done what he could do to stimulate and emphasize both the surprise and the gratification.
It is only necessary to take all these things for granted, and emphasize certain other things which are peculiar to the sea.
In an ordinary light it is only a few broad planes of value and color without an accent object to emphasize or centre on.
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