emphasizes

VERB

stress, give priority to

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accentuate affirm assert highlight indicate maintain point out reiterate repeat underline underscore

STRONG

accent articulate charge dramatize enlarge enunciate headline hit impress italicize mark pinpoint press pronounce punctuate spotlight weight

WEAK

bear down dwell on insist on labor the point limelight make a point make clear make emphatic make much of play up point up put accent on rub in

Antonyms

STRONGEST

deny

STRONG

lose mumble

WEAK

depreciate forget ignore play down understate

Example Sentences

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Emphasizes both the process and the discovery of writing.

From Washington Post • May 22, 2015

A version of this article appeared September 16, 2013, on page A13 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Kerry Emphasizes 'Threat of Force Is Real'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 16, 2013

Emphasizes Everywhere the Personal.—The social consciousness sees man as preëminently the social animal, made for personal relations, irrevocably and essentially knit up with other persons.

From Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) by King, Henry Churchill

Emphasizes the power and presence of a life hid with Christ in God.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry

Emphasizes the importance of codex Venetus A and has some remarks on Venetus B. Published in 1793.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Dio, Cassius