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View definitions for accentuating

accentuating

adjective as in increasing

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Example Sentences

She was a few years younger than Queen Victoria, and looked rather like her, in dress and bearing, and took to accentuating the resemblance.

She’s a natural beauty, with her long, sandy blond hair partially tied back accentuating her soulful hazel eyes and infectious smile.

Girl With One Eye, in which Florence plucks out a love rival's eyeball, was punctuated by blasts of tuba and a twinkling harpsichord - accentuating the dark comedy of the lyric with a musical nod to the Addams Family theme.

From BBC

“Whatever nomenclature you prefer,” Elizabeth offers, accentuating her speech with oozing hauteur.

From Salon

Accentuating the glass wrinkles with gilding serves to sanctify the century-old depot structure.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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