Overview of verb accent

The verb accent has 2 senses

• stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate -- (to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet")


• stress, accent, accentuate -- (put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word")

Overview of adj accented

The adj accented has 2 senses

• tonic, accented -- (used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word")


• stressed, accented -- (bearing a stress or accent; "an iambic foot consists of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable as in `delay'")