accentuate (redirected from accentuating)

ac·cen·tu·ate  (k-snch-t)

tr.v. ac·cen·tu·at·ed, ac·cen·tu·at·ing, ac·cen·tu·ates

1. To stress or emphasize; intensify: "enacted sweeping land-reform plans that accentuated the already chaotic pattern of landholding" (James Fallows).

2. To pronounce with a stress or accent.

3. To mark with an accent.

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[Medieval Latin accenture, accentut-, from Latin accentus, accent; see accent.]

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ac·centu·ation n.

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accentuate

Verb

[-ating, -ated] to stress or emphasize

accentuation n

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" accent, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise background, play down, downplay - understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry" set off, bring out - direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!"; "I set off these words by brackets" re-emphasise, re-emphasize - emphasize anew; "The director re-emphasized the need for greater productivity" bear down - pay special attention to; "The lectures bore down on the political background" evince, express, show - give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" topicalize - emphasize by putting heavy stress on or by moving to the front of the sentence; "Speakers topicalize more often than they realize"; "The object of the sentence is topicalized in what linguists call `Yiddish Movement'" point up - emphasize, especially by identification; "This novel points up the racial problems in England" press home, ram home, drive home - make clear by special emphasis and try to convince somebody of something; "drive home a point or an argument"; "I'm trying to drive home these basic ideas" emphasise, underline, underscore, emphasize - give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words"
	2.	accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" accent, stress enounce, enunciate, pronounce, sound out, articulate, say - speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?"

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accentuate

verb emphasize, stress, highlight, accent, underline, bring home, underscore, foreground, give emphasis to, call or draw attention to << OPPOSITE minimize

Translations

accentuate [ækˈsɛntjueɪt] vt [+ syllable] → acentuar [+ need, difference etc]; recalcar, subrayar

accentuate [ækˈsɛntjueɪt] vt [+ syllable] → accentuer [+ need, difference etc]; souligner

accentuate [ækˈsɛntjueɪt] accent vt → betonen;

(need, difference etc) → hervorheben

accentuate [ækˈsɛntjueɪt] vt [+ syllable] → accentuare [+ need, difference etc]; accentuare, mettere in risalto or in evidenza