noun
- The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
- synonyms: emphasizing, accentuation
verb
- To stress, single out as important.
- usage: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
- Put stress on; utter with an accent.
- usage: "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
- synonyms: stress, accent, accentuate
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