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EMPHASIZED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does emphasized mean?
• EMPHASIZED (adjective)
The adjective EMPHASIZED has 1 sense:
1. spoken with emphasis
Familiarity information: EMPHASIZED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spoken with emphasis
Synonyms:
emphasised; emphasized; emphatic
Context example:
an emphatic word
Similar:
Context examples
“Aye!” replied the Doctor, apparently wondering why he emphasized those words so much.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The monotonous drip of the coffee from the table to the floor merely emphasized the silence.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
The study also emphasized the impact of species' mobility on their resilience.
(Galapagos sea life study highlights importance of biodiversity in the face of climate change, National Science Foundation)
A subdiscipline of psychiatry that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking; also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental methods are emphasized.
(Experimental Psychiatry, NCI Thesaurus)
Specifies whether an event or entity is pointed out or emphasized.
(Highlighted Indicator, NCI Thesaurus)
The researchers emphasized that it's not known if the drug is safe and that the results in mice do not mean the drug would work in people.
(New Experimental Drug Reverses Hair Loss, Skin Damage, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I think some people on the Internet have over-emphasized the downside of Mercury retrograde.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I could see their faces, flushed and angry, the brutality distorted and emphasized by the sickly yellow of the sea-lamps which rocked back and forth with the ship.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Coconut oil itself is not a repellent, Zhu emphasized.
(Coconut Oil Compounds Repel Insects Better than DEET, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Chew emphasized that this suggestion of a benefit from calcium could be due to confounding factors.
(No evidence that calcium increases risk of age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
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