EGAVE

emphasize

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 12.00 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
    His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.

Similar words

bring out accentuate punctuate stress underscore underline set off accent impress concentrate

Often followed by

the that this a their his its how in

Word family

emphasis emphasise emphasised emphasising emphasized emphasizes emphasizing emphatic emphatically

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