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Definition of Accentuate

Accentuate

  1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
  2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
  3. To mark with the written accent.

Accentuate Quotations

Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan

But on average, I go to the gym about four or five times a week. Today, I'm so experienced in training - I'm actually listening to my body now. My body needs freedom. When I train I create serenity and I produce oxygen in my blood. It helps me to think better and relax. By training, you accentuate the problem.
Jean Claude Van Damme

I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
Zac Efron

I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
Betty White

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
Freeman Dyson
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Accentuate Translations

accentuate in Afrikaans is beklemtoon
accentuate in Dutch is accentueren, beklemtonen
accentuate in French is accentuer, souligner
accentuate in German is betonen, akzentuieren
accentuate in Italian is accentatura
accentuate in Norwegian is fremheve, betone
accentuate in Swedish is betona, accentuera

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