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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To give emphasis to; stress.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To utter or pronounce with emphasis; render emphatic; lay stress upon: as, to emphasize a syllable, word, or declaration; to emphasize a passage in reading.
  2. To bring out clearly or distinctly; make more obvious or more positive; give a stronger perception of.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. give extra weight to (a communication)
  2. v. to stress, single out as important

Etymologies

  1. Latin, from Ancient Greek – see emphasis. (Wiktionary)
  2. From emphasis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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