The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To pronounce with an accent or with accents.
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To bring out distinctly; to make prominent; to emphasize.
In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated.
--London Times. To mark with the written accent.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: accentuate)
Usage examples of "accentuated".
Faye mumbled, her wide eyes stealing over him in greedy little bursts that she could not resist, taking in the exquisitely tailored pale beige suit that sheathed his very tall and powerful frame, lingering on the full spectacular effect of a colour that accentuated his black hair and sun-bronzed skin.
She watched him zip up faded denim jeans that accentuated his lithe muscular physique and pull on a dark green shirt, more casual clothing that she had ever seen him wear.
Her face had thinned, revealing a fine bone structure, and there were lines of care and laughter about her eyes and mouth that accentuated her loveliness rather than detracted from it.
Massive doses of testosterone had accentuated her masculine characteristics.
His thinness was accentuated by his height, which Claudine guessed to be just under two metres.
She was angular and small-busted, with prominent features accentuated by the style in which she wore her hair, cropped to her neck and with a definitive side-of-the-head parting.
A man of about forty stepped out, his ruddy tan and athletic build accentuated by a bright lavender Ralph Lauren polo shirt, khaki trousers, and TopSiders without socks.
Night seemed to be falling quickly now, accentuated by the musty tint of the stained-glass windows.
The sunlight in the clearing accentuated the flash of white through his dark hair.
The big one's eyes were shaded by overhanging brow ridges that were accentuated by bushy eyebrows.
The door scraped open, revealing the head of a nervous-eyed youth whose sallowness was accentuated by his vivid ginger hair.
She came into the room in a quilted, flowered dressing gown that accentuated her washed-out skin.