accent, dwell on, give emphasis to, highlight, overaccentuate, overstress, point up, rub in, star, underline
Definitionv. to stress
Last update: August 25, 2015
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Children sometimes suffer from low self-esteem when their parents constantly accentuate their mistakes. [verb]
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Shades, texture and dapple are worked gently into the rocking horse body to accentuate the natural curves and muscles. [verb]
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The Professor accentuated on British English. [verb]
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On the other hand, unwise treatment may accentuate and perpetuate them, causing much misery and unhappiness. [Please select]
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If you break it, your failure will be accentuated. [Please select]
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The loneliness of the place was accentuated by the sad cadenzas of the mountain hermit thrushes. [Please select]
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They accentuated the lifelessness, the petrifaction, the intense and sinister quiet of the prostrate city. [Please select]
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He found it now, in the infinitesimal touches upon the expression of the face, in the minute increase in the depressions and accentuated lines in the anatomy of the figure. [verb]
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Suffrage can not ameliorate that sad fact; it can only accentuate it, as indeed it does. [verb]
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