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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ACCENT'UATE, v.t. To mark or pronounce with an accent or with accents.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet" [syn: stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate]
2: put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word" [syn: stress, accent, accentuate]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-ated; -ating) Etymology: Medieval Latin accentuatus, past participle of accentuare, from Latin accentus Date: circa 1731 accent, emphasize; also intensify <accentuates the feeling of despair> • accentuation noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. emphasize; make prominent. Derivatives: accentuation n. Etymology: med.L accentuare accentuat- (as ACCENT)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Accentuate Ac*cen"tu*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Accentuated; p. pr. & vb. n. Accentuating.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents. 2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. --London Times. 3. To mark with the written accent.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(accentuates, accentuating, accentuated) To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable. His shaven head accentuates his large round face... VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Mark with accent, put the mark of accent upon. 2. Accent, lay stress upon, pronounce with accent, put the ictus on.

Moby Thesaurus

accent, belabor, dwell on, emphasize, give emphasis to, harp on, highlight, italicize, overaccentuate, overemphasize, overstress, place emphasis on, point up, punctuate, rub in, spotlight, star, stress, underline, underscore