emphasise

English

Etymology

From emphasis + -ise.

Pronunciation

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Verb

emphasise (third-person singular simple present emphasises, present participle emphasising, simple past and past participle emphasised)

1. UK standard spelling of emphasize.
   • 2022 January 12, “Network News: £7.2 million plan to stop flooding and protect South West rail link”, in RAIL, number 948, page 12:

     It has emphasised that the proposals do not involve any work on the railway itself, so train services would continue to run throughout.

   • 2025 September 4, Sam Wolfson, quoting Newt Gingrich, “Latte-swilling ‘performative males’: why milky drinks are shorthand for liberal”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 September 2025:

     Newt Gingrich accused New York mayor Bill De Blasio of “small soy latte liberalism” in 2014 – emphasising that the only thing more girlish than drinking a big dairy milky coffee was drinking a small vegan milky coffee.

Derived terms

• deemphasise
• emphasiser
• overemphasise
• re-emphasise
• underemphasise
• underemphasised

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