Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Strongly marked; strong; prominent; very distinct: as, accentuated features; an accentuated fault of manner.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
accentuate .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.
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And Carinthia Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.
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Jane was proclaimed by John Rose Mackrell (to his dying day the poor gentleman tried vainly to get the second syllable of his name accentuated) a young woman who would outlive twice over the husband she had.
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New York, 1906, p. 89) places hymns in this measure among those "in which the verbal accent preponderates and the metrical accent only makes itself noticeable in certain places (particularly in the fourth line and when a line closes with a word accentuated on the penultimate)".
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The slump of his shoulders and a bleak expression accentuated the careworn look in his eyes.
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The slump of his shoulders and a bleak expression accentuated the careworn look in his eyes.
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She assumed a grim expression accentuated by the severity of her long straight bangs.
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This kind of accentuated a growing dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the camp system.
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When one of the flight crew radioed Tokyo Airport, one minute and two seconds after missile detonation, his breathing was already "accentuated" as he was then speaking through the mike located in his oxygen mask,
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When one of the flight crew radioed Tokyo Airport, one minute and two seconds after missile detonation, his breathing was already "accentuated" as he was then speaking through the mike located in his oxygen mask,
gauravsarwal commented on the word accentuated
strong,prominent...
November 3, 2010