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；强调；使突出 Her short hair accentuated her huge eyes. 她的短发突出了她的大眼睛。 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，并因战争而加剧。 When talks did occur, they tended to accentuate differences between the two groups. 当对话确实发生时，它们往往会突出两组之间的差异。
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’.