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emphasising

emphasising is the present participle and gerund of emphasise.

Meaning of emphasise

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

Questions about emphasising

What is emphasising the present participle and gerund of?
Emphasising is the present participle and gerund of emphasise.

Words near emphasising in the dictionary

  1. emphasise
  2. emphasised
  3. emphasiser
  4. emphasisers
  5. emphasises
  6. emphasising
  7. emphasizable
  8. emphasization
  9. emphasize
  10. emphasize everything and nothing is emphasized
  11. emphasized

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasising (page history and authors); emphasise (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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