Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To give emphasis to; stress.
- transitive verb To cause to appear important or deserving of attention.
- transitive verb To give prominence of sound to (a syllable or word) in pronouncing or in accordance with a metrical pattern.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To utter or pronounce with emphasis; render emphatic; lay stress upon: as, to
emphasize a syllable, word, or declaration; to emphasize a passage in reading. - To bring out clearly or distinctly; make more obvious or more positive; give a stronger perception of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
stress , giveemphasis or extraweight to (something).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb give extra weight to (a communication)
- verb to stress, single out as important
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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What Shahzad means to emphasize is that suffering doesn't matter to him; he is unaffected no matter what the court would throw at him.
Yursil Kidwai: Time Square Bomber: Theological Confusion & Hypocrisy in Action Yursil Kidwai 2010
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What Shahzad means to emphasize is that suffering doesn't matter to him; he is unaffected no matter what the court would throw at him.
Yursil Kidwai: Time Square Bomber: Theological Confusion & Hypocrisy in Action Yursil Kidwai 2010
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And that the hard-left pinko (who's, as we again need to emphasize, is the sitting Senator from Wyoming, of all places) would use outing a guy out of a closet as a threat.
A young reader discovers the meaning of paranoia in the political novels of Allen Drury 2009
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In closing, we the Leadership of the One True Party, want to again emphasize the immediate importance of this issue.
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What Shahzad means to emphasize is that suffering doesn't matter to him; he is unaffected no matter what the court would throw at him.
Yursil Kidwai: Time Square Bomber: Theological Confusion & Hypocrisy in Action Yursil Kidwai 2010
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The only reason to note this is to again emphasize that Indians were a special case created by the peculiar history of the United States.
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Immediately following the excerpt that you chose to emphasize is this: the traditional armed forces represented by the Wehrmacht committed and ordered (e.g. the Commissar Order) war crimes of their own, particularly during the invasion of Poland in 1939 [5] and later in the war against the Soviet Union.
Berlinski's Wisdom 2010
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What I wanted to emphasize is that in practice the communist planning was never really implemented based on models as those imagined by Barone or Bauer.
Misunderstood, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What I must continue to emphasize is how much The Dark Knight accelerates past the limits of typical expectations for summer superhero blockbusters yet achieves an amazing level of brilliance that most movies in general don't even come close to anyway.
The Dark Knight: An Extraordinary Cinematic Revolution « FirstShowing.net 2008
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What Rick doesn't emphasize is that the Obama camp is doing everything possible to have a smooth convention and to minimize the hurt feelings of Clinton delegates on her loss.
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