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emphasized

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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.]
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Adj.1.emphasized - spoken with emphasis; "an emphatic word"
emphasised, emphatic
accented, stressed - bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'"


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