Accentuate \Ac*cen"tu*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Accentuated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Accentuating}.] [LL. accentuatus, p. p. of accentuare, fr. L. accentus: cf. F. accentuer.] 1. To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
2. To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. --London Times.
3. To mark with the written accent.
They hope to accentuate differences between Dukakis and his running mate.
The idea was to accentuate the wide horizons and open sky of a city that had no hills, forest or sea.
"The dollar wouldn't have reacted as much in a normal market," one trader said. "It's a very sensitive market that tends to accentuate even the slightest impulses." Added a trader at a commercial bank in Frankfurt: "What goes up must come down.
Now Lewis apparently has decided to accentuate the positive.
She'll never do that again." Schenk believes the stenuous dance routines that were a Falana trademark helped accentuate her problem 15 months ago.
"Swings of 15% will come more frequently and intensely," Mr. Gabelli said, partly because so-called portfolio insurance techniques used by institutional investors accentuate volatility.
There are issue-oriented contests in Dayton, Ohio, and Seattle, but in other cities with tough races, the campaigns accentuate the negative and raise unpleasant memories of the worst aspects of the 1988 presidential race.
Sometimes, band members laid down their regular instruments and picked up maracas or other off-beat percussion instruments to accentuate solos.