emphasize
verbUK /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/
Etymology Latin, from Ancient Greek – see emphasis.
1
To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
- His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.
- Synonyms
- betone, highlight, stress, underscore
- Antonyms
- de-emphasize, downplay
- Derived terms
- deëmphasize, emphasizable, emphasization, emphasize everything and nothing is emphasized, emphasizer, hyperemphasize, misemphasize, overemphasize, reemphasize, to emphasize everything is to emphasize nothing, underemphasize