accentuate

1. (transitive) To pronounce with an accent or vocal stress.transitive

2. (transitive) To bring out distinctly; to make more noticeable or prominent; to emphasize.Examples: "our danger and insolation only accentuated the incompatibility"; "These were business hours, and a feeling of loneliness crept over him, perhaps germinated by his sight of the illustrated papers, and accentuated by an attempted perusal of them."; "Attempts by Waterloo signalmen to clear the points by power operation eventually exhausted point motor batteries, which are fed by trickle chargers, and a blown fuse accentuated the problem; thus, even when the points had been cleared of ice, no power was available to operate them until the batteries were sufficiently recharged."transitive

3. (transitive) To mark with a written accent.transitive