underscores
[ verb uhn-der-skawr, -skohr, uhn-der-skawr, -skohr; noun uhn-der-skawr, -skohr ]SEE DEFINITION OF underscoresSynonyms for underscores
- accentuate
- highlight
- indicate
- mark
- stress
- accent
- caption
- feature
- italicize
- call attention to
- draw attention to
- give emphasis
- point to
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR UNDERSCORES
Italicized text is represented in the etext with underscores thusly.
Sole in the violent welter of those sheets it had no underscores nor any exclamations.
This latter theme, with the motive of Fate, underscores the earlier portions of the dialogue between Golaud and Mélisande.
The sad situation of the smaller and much less industrialized Monocacy in the same summer underscores the point.
In edition 11, underscores are used to denote words and phrases italicized for emphasis.