accentuate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they accentuate | |
| he / she / it accentuates | |
| past simple accentuated | |
| past participle accentuated | |
| -ing form accentuating |
- accentuate something
to emphasize something or make it easier to notice 着重；強調；使突出 Her short hair accentuated her huge eyes. 她的短發突出了她的大眼睛。 The fundamental patterns of inequality have remained and have been accentuated by the war. 不平等的基本模式依然存在，並因戰爭而加劇。 When talks did occur, they tended to accentuate differences between the two groups. 當對話確實發生時，它們往往會突出兩組之間的差異。
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from medieval Latin accentuat- ‘accented’, from the verb accentuare, from accentus ‘tone’(from ad- ‘to’ + cantus ‘song’), translating Greek prosōidia ‘a song sung to music, intonation’.