Usually means: Emphasize or highlight a feature.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. accentuate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accentuate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accentuate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accentuate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accentuate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accentuate, accentuate: Wordnik
  7. accentuate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. accentuate: Wiktionary
  9. accentuate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accentuate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accentuate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Accentuate, accentuate: Dictionary.com
  13. accentuate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accentuate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Accentuate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. accentuate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. accentuate: Rhymezone
  18. accentuate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. accentuate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. accentuate: Free Dictionary
  21. accentuate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. accentuate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. accentuate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. accentuate: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accentuate: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accentuate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accentuate: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accentuate: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To mark with a written accent.

Similar:
emphasize, accent, punctuate, stress, set off, bring out, reaccentuate, emphasise, betone, reaccent, more...

Opposite:
de-emphasize, downplay, minimize, understate

Types:
emphasize, highlight, underscore, accent, stress, feature, spotlight, draw attention to, more...

Phrases:
opposite of accentuate, more...

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Similar:
emphasize, accent, punctuate, stress, set off, bring out, reaccentuate, emphasise, betone, reaccent, more...

Opposite:
de-emphasize, downplay, minimize, understate

Types:
emphasize, highlight, underscore, accent, stress, feature, spotlight, draw attention to, more...

Phrases:
opposite of accentuate, more...

Colors:
    gold,     silver,     crimson,     emerald,     sapphire, more...



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