to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words
To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase
em·pha·size emphasizes emphasizing emphasized in BRIT, also use emphasise To emphasize something means to indicate that it is particularly important or true, or to draw special attention to it. But it's also been emphasized that no major policy changes can be expected to come out of the meeting Discuss pollution with your child, emphasizing how nice a clean street, lawn, or park looks
{f} stress, accentuate the importance of, underscore; make more obviously defined (e.g.: "The skirt she is wearing emphasizes her waist"), emphasise
to stress, single out as important; "Dr Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"