"accentuates" in the verb sense
1. stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
to stress, single out as important
"Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
2. stress, accent, accentuate
put stress on utter with an accent
"In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
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