Definitions for emphasize

emphasize em·pha·size

Spelling: [em-fuh-sahyz]
IPA: /ˈɛm fəˌsaɪz/

Emphasize is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 25 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 290 anagrams from letters in emphasize (aeehimpsz).

Definitions for emphasize

verb (used with object)

  1. to give emphasis to; lay stress upon; stress:

Origin of emphasize

First recorded in 1820-30; emphas(is) + -ize

Examples for emphasize

As though she had meant by wearing it to emphasize her belief in her lover.

This physiology, we may emphasize, is not derived from an investigation of human anatomy.

The pictures of Gilkes emphasize, quite rightly and inevitably, his classic good looks.

This was no time for him to ask me such a question, especially to emphasize the "you."

Not quite saying what academic aptitude is, he is sure Harvard should emphasize it to create a “true meritocracy.”

In 2014, it appears, the key to winning in a swing state is to avoid talking about issues and emphasize pig castration.

The discovery seemed only to emphasize the helplessness of his predicament.

The problem, I should emphasize, is not that the Internet is evil.

Suddenly she leant forward upon the table as though to emphasize what she had to say.

And as if to emphasize their accounts, in early afternoon a U.S. airstrike hit a building in the middle of Kobani.

Word Value for emphasize
Scrable

25

Words with friends

26

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