punctuate
About 0.30 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To add punctuation to. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
That occurrence of "its" needs to be punctuated as "it's".
- verb To add or to interrupt at regular intervals.
My father punctuated his tirade with thumps on the desk.
- verb To emphasize; to stress.
- adjective Point-like; consisting of or marked with one or more points.
Similar words
accentuate accent emphasize mark stress interpunctuate point interpoint punctulate hyphen
Often followed by
the his a and it their correctly this her
Word family
punctuated punctuates punctuating punctuator punctuators
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