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accentuate
Overview of verb accentuate
The verb accentuate has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (3) stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate -- (to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet")
2. stress, accent, accentuate -- (put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word")
Antonyms of verb accentuate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb accentuate
2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> express, show, evince
=> convey, impart
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
=> pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb accentuate
1 of 2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> background, play down, downplay
=> bring out, set off
=> re-emphasise, re-emphasize
=> bear down
=> topicalize
=> point up
=> drive home, ram home, press home
=> underscore, underline, emphasize, emphasise
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb accentuate
2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> express, show, evince
Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
=> pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
'Cause To' of verb accentuate
Derived Forms of verb accentuate
2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
RELATED TO>(noun) accent#2
=> emphasis, accent
RELATED TO>(noun) accentuation#2
=> emphasizing, accenting, accentuation
Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
RELATED TO>(noun) accent#3
=> dialect, idiom, accent
RELATED TO>(noun) accent#5
=> accent, accent mark
RELATED TO>(noun) accent#1
=> accent, speech pattern
RELATED TO>(noun) accent#4
=> stress, emphasis, accent
RELATED TO>(noun) accentuation#1
=> accentuation
Domain of verb accentuate
Domain Terms of verb accentuate
Familiarity of verb accentuate
accentuate used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb accentuate
2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
*> Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb accentuate
2 senses of accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
> express, show, evince
=> sneer
=> imply, connote
=> burst out
=> suggest, evoke, paint a picture
=> imply
=> give
=> exude
=> vent, ventilate, give vent
=> give voice, formulate, word, phrase, articulate
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> menace
=> beam
=> smile
Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
> pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
=> twang
=> devoice
=> raise
=> lilt
=> palatalize, palatalise
=> nasalize, nasalise
=> mispronounce, misspeka
=> aspirate
=> voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise
=> retroflex
=> subvocalize, subvocalise
=> syllabize, syllabise
=> drawl
=> round, labialize, labialise
=> lisp
=> stress, accent, accentuate
=> vocalize, vocalise, vowelize, vowelise
=> click
=> trill
=> sibilate
=> flap
=> explode
=> roll
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb accentuate
Sense 1
stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> express, show, evince
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Sense 2
stress, accent, accentuate
=> pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
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Grep of verb accentuate
accentuate
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