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Noun accenting has 1 sense
  1. emphasizing, accenting, accentuation - the act of giving special importance or significance to something
    --1 is a kind of action
,Verb accent has 2 senses
  1. 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
    Derived form: noun accent2
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
  2. 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
    Derived form: noun accent4
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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