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/æksˈɛntʃueɪt/ Listen

verb

Accentuate v. t. (past & past part. accentuated; pres. part. accentuating)

To pronounce with an accent or with accents.

To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. "In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated."

To mark with the written accent.

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Etymology of 'Accentuate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Accentuate" Quotes from Famous Books

... use this method of reductio ad absurdum most effectively because he seldom failed to accentuate the absurdity by some instance which made clear to the least learned the force of his argument. Many of his best remembered quaint and picturesque phrases were embodied in his serious demolition of some high-handed presumption ...

— Public Speaking • Clarence Stratton

... disappear, and good spirits and good health will be maintained; on the other hand, the giving of a cathartic to a child who is the victim of an eruptive disease will not tend to diminish the rash, but may accentuate it. ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • Grant Hague

... Europe and those of the East, their own country included. In a book dealing particularly with the art of Japan, written in English by a Japanese, he attempts to emphasise this matter. He remarks: "Asia is one. The Himalayas divide only to accentuate two mighty civilisations—the Chinese, with its communism of Confucius, and the Indian, with its individualism of the Vedas. But not even the snowy barriers can interrupt for one moment that broad expanse of love for the Ultimate and Universal which is the common-thought inheritance ...

— The Empire of the East • H. B. Montgomery

... flight. A faint breeze stirred the tall tips of the pines, a cone dropped on the stage roof, one of the invisible horses that seemed to be listening too moved slightly in his harness. But this only appeared to accentuate the profound stillness. The moments were growing interminable, when the voice, so near as to startle Hale, broke once more ...

— Snow-Bound at Eagle's • Bret Harte

... see"—with a malicious little smile to accentuate the curving downdroop of the pretty eyelids. "You mean that she was just getting a bit of practice. I wondered why she was so willing; most young women are so silly about the sight of a little blood. Don't you think you'd better try to sleep for a while? ...

— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde

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