What is "accentuates"

Usage examples of "accentuates".

While one Custom-house and one general Government is aiding Union, the Province of Quebec accentuates all that is French.

A light hangs over her, saturating her in a pool of yellow light which imparts an ethereal beauty and accentuates her breasts.

The light from below accentuates the shadows in her face, transforming her into a spectre.

At every turn, she has striven to deny Anele from us, though his madness only accentuates the peril of his Earthpower.

Several contrary potentialities interpenetrated at their common source, but of this source each of these kinds of activity preserves or rather accentuates only one tendency.

I want to be able to hold my head high, but I can't now, and that only accentuates the double chin.

This accentuates the natural stooping posture which shovelling coal and the resultant over-development of back and shoulder muscles have given them.

When a handsome girl appears on the street an enthusiastic masculine admirer, to express his appreciation of her beauty, tells you: "She is a peach, a bird, a cuckoo," any of which accentuates his estimation of the young lady and is much more emphatic than saying: "She is a beautiful girl," "a handsome maiden," or "lovely young woman.