- tonic, accented - used of syllables; "a tonic syllables carries the main stress in a word"
- accented, heavy, strong - used of syllables or musical beats
Antonyms: unstressed, unaccented (indirect, via stressed)
- stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate - to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"
--1 is one way to express, show, evince
Sample sentences:Derived form: noun accent2
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- stress, accent, accentuate - put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"
--2 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun accent4
Somebody ----s something