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DE-EMPHASISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they de-emphasise ... he / she / it de-emphasises
Past simple: de-emphasised
Past participle: de-emphasised
-ing form: de-emphasising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce the emphasis
Synonyms:
de-emphasise; de-emphasize; destress
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "de-emphasise" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "de-emphasise"):
reduce (destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
