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emphasize

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em·pha·size  (mf-sz)
tr.v. em·pha·sized, em·pha·siz·ing, em·pha·siz·es
To give emphasis to; stress.

[From emphasis.]

emphasize, emphasise [ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz]
vb
(tr) to give emphasis or prominence to; stress
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.emphasize - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
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.emphasizeemphasize - give extra weight to (a communication); "Her gesture emphasized her words"
accent, accentuate, emphasize, stress, punctuate, emphasise - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

emphasize
verb
1. highlight, stress, insist, underline, draw attention to, dwell on, underscore, weight, play up, make a point of, foreground, give priority to, press home, give prominence to, prioritize I should emphasize that nothing has been finally decided as yet.
highlight play down, minimize, make light of, gloss over, underplay, soft-pedal (informal), make little of
2. stress, accent, accentuate, lay stress on, put the accent on `That's up to you,' I said, emphasizing the 'you'.
Translations
emphasize [ˈemfəsaɪz] VT
1. [+ word, syllable] → enfatizar; [+ fact, point] → hacer hincapié en, enfatizar, subrayar, recalcar
I must emphasize thatdebo insistir en que ...
2. (Ling) → acentuar
3. [garment] (= accentuate) → hacer resaltar

emphasize [ˈɛmfəsaɪz] vt
(= stress) [+ importance] → souligner; [+ need] → faire ressortir; [+ fact] → insister sur, mettre l'accent sur; [+ point] → souligner
to emphasize that ... → souligner que ...
I must emphasize that ... → je tiens à souligner que ...
(= highlight) [+ feature] → souligner, accentuer
[+ syllable] → accentuer; [+ word, point] → insister sur

emphasize
vt word, syllable, hipsbetonen; point, importance, difference, need alsohervorheben; it cannot be too strongly emphasized that …man kann gar nicht genug betonen, dass …

emphasize [ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz] vt (word, fact, point, feature) → sottolineare; (subj, garment) → mettere in evidenza
I must emphasize that ... → devo sottolineare il fatto che...
emphasize [ˈɛmfəˌsaɪz] vt (word, fact, point, feature) → sottolineare; (subj, garment) → mettere in evidenza
I must emphasize that ... → devo sottolineare il fatto che...

emphasize يُؤَكِد zdůraznit understrege betonen τονίζω enfatizar korostaa souligner naglasiti enfatizzare 強調する 강조하다 benadrukken understreke uwydatnić enfatizar подчеркивать understryka เน้น vurgulamak nhấn mạnh 强调


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This distinction should be kept in mind, but in what follows it will not be to our purpose to emphasize it.
She threw out her hands to emphasize her words and Raoul turned pale, not only because of the words which he had heard, but because he had caught sight of a plain gold ring on Christine's finger.
Anne started off irreproachable, arrayed in the stiff black- and-white sateen, which, while decent as regards length and certainly not open to the charge of skimpiness, contrived to emphasize every corner and angle of her thin figure.
 
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