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emphasizing

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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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Noun1.emphasizingemphasizing - the act of giving special importance or significance to something
accenting, accentuation
action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"


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They were thick and almost horizontal, emphasizing the depth of her eyes.
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"The horses can be taken out and I will see no one," he said in answer to the porter, with a certain pleasure, indicative of his agreeable frame of mind, emphasizing the words, "see no one.
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When I ask for a garment of a particular form, my tailoress tells me gravely, "They do not make them so now," not emphasizing the "They" at all, as if she quoted an authority as impersonal as the Fates, and I find it difficult to get made what I want, simply because she cannot believe that I mean what I say, that I am so rash.
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