Usually means: Highlighting importance or significance clearly.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word emphasize:

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. emphasize: Encyclopedia

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

Similar:
accentuate, punctuate, accent, underline, underscore, stress, set off, bring out, emphasise, reemphasize, more...

Opposite:
downplay, minimize, understate, overlook, ignore

Types:
italicize, underline, bold, highlight, more...

Phrases:
de emphasize, re emphasize, over emphasize, emphasize very strongly, to emphasize, more...

Adjectives:
over, former, particular, latter, many, special, few, general, above, less, elderly

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Similar:
accentuate, punctuate, accent, underline, underscore, stress, set off, bring out, emphasise, reemphasize, more...

Opposite:
downplay, minimize, understate, overlook, ignore

Types:
italicize, underline, bold, highlight, more...

Phrases:
de emphasize, re emphasize, over emphasize, emphasize very strongly, to emphasize, emphasize again, to further emphasize, emphasize strongly, opposite of emphasize, to emphasize a, emphasize something, more...

Adjectives:
over, former, particular, latter, many, special, few, general, above, less, elderly

Colors:
    red,     yellow,     orange,     neon green,     electric blue, more...



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