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accentuateverb to indicate the importance of by centering attention onlet's accentuate the saxophones during this piece by having the sax players stand up accent, emphasize, feature, foreground, highlight, illuminate, play up, point (up), press, punctuate, stress focus, identify, pinpoint, spotlightadvertise, boost, plug, promote, publicizeoverplay bear down on, make much of de-emphasize, play down tone (down), underemphasize, understatebelittle, discount, disparage, minimize to make markedly greater in measure or degreethe foul weather merely accentuated my feelings of depression amp (up), amplify, beef (up), boost, consolidate, deepen, enhance, heighten, intensify, magnify, redouble, step up, strengthen broaden, enlarge, expand, extend, lengthenaccelerate, hasten, quickenemphasize, point (up), sharpen, stressaugment, enforce, reinforce(also reenforce), restrengthen, supplementmaximizeenliven, jazz (up)aggravate, exacerbate abate, moderate decrease, diminish, lessen, let up (on), reduce, subdue, tone (down), weakendwindle, recede, subside, taper (off), wanealleviate, ease, lighten to make more apparentunfortunately, the new bedspread just accentuates the dinginess of the curtains behind the bed bring out, emphasize, italicize, stress, underline, underscore amplify, beef (up), boost, reinforce(also reenforce), strengthenaugment, deepen, enhance, enlarge, heighten, magnify, maximize, supplementenliven, jazz (up) de-emphasize decrease, diminish, lessen, minimize, reduce, subdue, tone (down), understate, weaken ca. 1719 |