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emphasizing

emphasizing is the present participle and gerund of emphasize.

Meaning of emphasize

Verb

emphasize (third-person singular simple present emphasizes, present participle emphasizing, simple past and past participle emphasized)

  1. (transitive) To stress, give emphasis or extra weight to (something).
    • His two-fingered gesture emphasized what he had told his boss to do with his job.

Questions about emphasizing

What is emphasizing the present participle and gerund of?
Emphasizing is the present participle and gerund of emphasize.

Words near emphasizing in the dictionary

  1. emphasize everything and nothing is emphasized
  2. emphasized
  3. emphasizer
  4. emphasizers
  5. emphasizes
  6. emphasizing
  7. emphatic
  8. emphatic pronoun
  9. emphatic pronouns
  10. emphatic state
  11. emphatical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emphasizing (page history and authors); emphasize (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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