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re-emphasise

re-emphasise is the alternative spelling of reemphasize.

Meaning of reemphasize

Verb

reemphasize (third-person singular simple present reemphasizes, present participle reemphasizing, simple past and past participle reemphasized)

  1. To emphasize again; to reiterate.
    • Although the New England settlers made their commonwealth much less like Old England than Virginia was intended to be, it is important to re-emphasize that the vast majority were not separatists but Puritans.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 720

Forms of re-emphasise

third-person singular presentre-emphasises
present participlere-emphasising
past participlere-emphasised
pastre-emphasised
alternative formreemphasise

Origin of re-emphasise

From re- + emphasise.

Questions about re-emphasise

What is re-emphasise the alternative spelling of?
Re-emphasise is the alternative spelling of reemphasize.

Words near re-emphasise in the dictionary

  1. re-emerged
  2. re-emergence
  3. re-emerges
  4. re-emerging
  5. re-emit
  6. re-emphasise
  7. re-emphasised
  8. re-emphasises
  9. re-emphasising
  10. re-employ
  11. re-employed

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