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Emphasize

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something). transitive

    "His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job."

  2. 2
    to stress, single out as important wordnet
  3. 3
    give extra weight to (a communication) wordnet

Etymology

Latin, from Ancient Greek – see emphasis.

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