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(verb) put stress on; utter with an accent |
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Synonyms: accent |
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Related Words: articulate, enounce, enunciate, pronounce, say |
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(verb) to stress, single out as important: "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet." |
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Synonyms: accent, accentuate, emphasize, punctuate |
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Related Words: bear down, drive home, emphasize, evince, express, point up, press home, re-emphasise, re-emphasize, show, underline, underscore |
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(noun) a physical force producing deformation or strain |
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Related Words: force, forcefulness, strength |
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(noun) the relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
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Synonyms: accent, accentuation, emphasis |
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Related Words: inflection, pitch accent, prosody, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, word stress |
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(noun) (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body |
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Related Words: breaking point, force, tension |
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(noun) a state of extreme difficulty: "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson |
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Synonyms: strain |
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Related Words: difficulty |
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(noun) special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed" |
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Synonyms: focus |
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Related Words: accent, emphasis |
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(verb) direct attention to, as if by means of contrast; "This dress accentuates your nice figure!" "I set off these words by brackets" |
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Synonyms: accent, accentuate, bring out, emphasize, set off |
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Related Words: alter, background, change, foreground, highlight, pick up, play down, play up, raise, spotlight |
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(noun) an intense or violent exertion |
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Synonyms: strain, straining |
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Related Words: effort, elbow grease, exertion, sweat, travail |
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(verb) test the limits of; "You are trying my patience!" |
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Synonyms: strain, try |
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Related Words: afflict, rack |
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(noun) a state mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension" |
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Synonyms: tenseness, tension |
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Related Words: breaking point, mental strain, nervous strain, strain |
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