accentuate

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verb

1. to stress, single out as important (Freq. 2)
- Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet
• Syn:
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent
• Derivationally related forms:
accent, accentuation, accent (for: accent), emphasizing (for: emphasize), emphasis (for: emphasize), stress (for: stress)
• Hypernyms:
express, show, evince
• Hyponyms:
background, play down, downplay, bring out, set off,
re-emphasise, re-emphasize, bear down, topicalize, point up, drive home,
ram home, press home, underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
2. put stress on;
utter with an accent
- In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word
• Syn:
stress, accent
• Derivationally related forms:
accent, accentuation, accent (for: accent), stress (for: stress)
• Hypernyms:
pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  stress, accent, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate