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emphasise

emphasise verb: UK standard spelling of emphasize.

Verb

emphasise (third-person singular simple present emphasises, present participle emphasising, simple past and past participle emphasised)

  1. UK standard spelling of emphasize.
    • It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12
    • “I grew up in a Buddhist family,” Thao Nguyen Phan says of her childhood in Vietnam. “Even though the religion here seems to emphasise peace and mindfulness, the land is turbulent, there is always conflict, and the environmental impact on the river has been very dramatic.”2022 February 28, Rosanna McLaughlin, “Thao Nguyen Phan: ‘There’s beauty and optimism in these tragic stories’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2022

emphasise meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada

emphasise in Urdu

جتانا, زور دینا

emphasise in Bengali

জোর দেওয়া

emphasise in Kannada

ಒತ್ತುಹಾಕು, ಒತ್ತುಕೊಡು, ಪ್ರಾಧಾನ್ಯನೀಡು, ಮಹತ್ವಕೊಡು

Examples of emphasise in a sentence

  • If you want to emphasise the shape, it is possible to gather the waistline.
  • Geng Dingxiang emphasised its non-abstruse and non-profound aspect of refined subtlety within coarse shallowness.
  • She emphasises that being transgender really has nothing to do with your anatomy.

All 32 example sentences with emphasise

Forms of emphasise

third-person singular presentemphasises
present participleemphasising
past participleemphasised
pastemphasised

Past tense of emphasise: emphasised

Origin of emphasise

From emphasis + -ise.

Words formed from emphasise

Questions about emphasise

What does emphasise mean?
Emphasise means UK standard spelling of emphasize.
What is emphasise in Urdu?
Emphasise in Urdu is جتانا, زور دینا. See Emphasise meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is emphasise?
Emphasise is a verb.
What is the past tense of emphasise?
The past tense of emphasise is emphasised.

Words near emphasise in the dictionary

  1. Empfindsamer Stil
  2. empfindsamer style
  3. Empfindsamkeit
  4. emphases
  5. emphasis
  6. emphasise
  7. emphasised
  8. emphasiser
  9. emphasisers
  10. emphasises
  11. emphasising

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasise (page history and authors); emphasise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emphasise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); emphasise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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